Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKETo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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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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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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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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