Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKEPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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