Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKEThe greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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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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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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