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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKE

Build Prudence Rage Time
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World

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