Edmund Burke on grave
Edmund Burke107 quotes“The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.”
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Never the grave gives back what it has won!
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
Eric ClaptonEric Clapton [On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
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