It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEHe that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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