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Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Edmund Burke Quotes ~
« Reply #30 on: May 29, 2014, 09:20:49 AM »
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
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« Reply #31 on: May 29, 2014, 09:21:14 AM »
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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« Reply #32 on: May 29, 2014, 09:21:34 AM »
An event has happened upon which it is difficult to speak and impossible to be silent.
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« Reply #33 on: May 29, 2014, 09:22:00 AM »
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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« Reply #34 on: May 29, 2014, 09:22:25 AM »
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
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« Reply #35 on: May 29, 2014, 09:22:48 AM »
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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« Reply #36 on: May 29, 2014, 09:23:12 AM »
If we command our wealth we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us we are poor indeed.
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« Reply #37 on: May 29, 2014, 09:23:37 AM »
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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« Reply #38 on: May 29, 2014, 09:23:58 AM »
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.
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« Reply #39 on: May 29, 2014, 09:24:23 AM »
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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« Reply #40 on: May 29, 2014, 09:24:46 AM »
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.
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« Reply #41 on: May 29, 2014, 09:25:09 AM »
A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.
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« Reply #42 on: May 29, 2014, 09:25:34 AM »
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.
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« Reply #43 on: May 29, 2014, 09:26:04 AM »
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.
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« Reply #44 on: May 29, 2014, 09:26:27 AM »
The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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