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" Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. "
Edmund Burke
Religion
Nothing
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" All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. "
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" A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. "
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" 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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" By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. "
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" The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. "
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" If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. "
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" People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. "
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" If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. "
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