Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKEThose who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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