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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

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering

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