Good order is the foundation of all things.
EDMUND BURKEIn history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Turn over a new leaf.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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