Those who attempt to level never equalize.
EDMUND BURKEApplause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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