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Edmund Burke Inspirational Quotes (303)

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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
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But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
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The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
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Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
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That cardinal virtue, temperance.
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No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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It is the love of the people it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
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It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin and about as valuable.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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