People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKEIt is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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