The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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