To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKECircumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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