He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKEReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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