You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKEExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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 hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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