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

Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE

Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
EDMUND BURKE

Assumption Country Himself Man
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE

Despair Work
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE

Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
EDMUND BURKE

Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Sin Yourself
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE

Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
EDMUND BURKE

Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE

Government Injustice Oppression
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKE

Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Creator Government Law Nation Nature
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE

Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth

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