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

Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness

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

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