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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; no...

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

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Too much idleness, I have obse...

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

There was an ancient Roman law...

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.

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The great inlet by which a col...

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

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The nerve that never relaxes, ...

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

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The individual is foolish; the...

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

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The body of all true religion ...

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

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They made and recorded a sort ...

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

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That cardinal virtue, temperan...

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

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Delusion and weakness produce ...

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

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God has sometimes converted wi...

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

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I have not yet lost a feeling ...

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

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Silence is golden but when it ...

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

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A good parson once said that w...

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

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Good company, lively conversat...

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

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To reach the height of our amb...

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

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Who can know her, and himself,...

Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

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All persons possessing any por...

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

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All that needs to be done for ...

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

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The use of force alone is but ...

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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