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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE

Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
EDMUND BURKE

Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE

Digest Eat Reading Reflection
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
EDMUND BURKE

Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Himself Mistake
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKE

Courage Coward Tongue
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Multitude Tyranny
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKE

Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKE

Abandonment Power Willing
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Sin Yourself

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