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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Edmund Burke

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
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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

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