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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Himself Mistake
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE

Despair Work
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
EDMUND BURKE

Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKE

Mistake Nation Power Small
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKE

Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE

Difference Fatal Religion
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
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
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKE

Age Economics Forever Success
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
EDMUND BURKE

Affection Animal Creation Social
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance

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