There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKEThose who attempt to level never equalize.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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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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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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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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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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