It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEMere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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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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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