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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success

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