It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEOur patience will achieve more than our force.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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 use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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