Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKENever despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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