Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
Edmund Burke
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JULIET MARILLIER Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.
ANNE RICE The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
SCOTT WESTERFELD The passion for children is in her heart.
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NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO It was just heart-wrenching to see people's outpouring of sympathy and concern.
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EDMUND BURKE It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to...
EDMUND BURKE The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
EDMUND BURKE The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upo...
EDMUND BURKE All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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