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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Edmund Burke

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
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
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
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety

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