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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature

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