Category: Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke Work

Edmund Burke | work

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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Edmund Burke Wisdom

Edmund Burke | wisdom

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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Edmund Burke Wisdom

Edmund Burke | wisdom

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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Edmund Burke war

Edmund Burke | war

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

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Edmund Burke Time

Edmund Burke | time

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

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Edmund Burke Time

Edmund Burke | time

You can never plan the future by the past.

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Edmund Burke society

Edmund Burke | society

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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Edmund Burke society

Edmund Burke | society

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

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Edmund Burke society

Edmund Burke | society

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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Edmund Burke religion

Edmund Burke | religion

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

A statement that was to lead to me finding sanity as a working mom. “first of all, i want thank you from the bottom of my heart. 50 questions on the french revolution.