Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKEAmong a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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