It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEFlattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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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.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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.
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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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