The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Edmund Burke
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exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i... EDMUND BURKE The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of
the most valuable and interesting ... EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look
backward to their ancestors. EDMUND BURKE A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not
yet hardened into the bone of manho... EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little
more than to amuse you with storie... EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. EDMUND BURKE Chapter of accidents. EDMUND BURKE Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way,
ought to give us ground to presume ab... EDMUND BURKE I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no
small one, in the real misfortunes and... EDMUND BURKE The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ... EDMUND BURKE It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. EDMUND BURKE A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the
world. EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound. EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
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Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught... EDMUND BURKE It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law,
according to the golden mete-wand... EDMUND BURKE The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. EDMUND BURKE There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue. EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it... EDMUND BURKE Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair EDMUND BURKE Turn over a new leaf. EDMUND BURKE Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart EDMUND BURKE But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. EDMUND BURKE Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. EDMUND BURKE The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of th... EDMUND BURKE The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e... EDMUND BURKE The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in
England. EDMUND BURKE Calamity is man's true touchstone EDMUND BURKE Illustrious Predecessor. EDMUND BURKE Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no
other. EDMUND BURKE A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends.
Cannot I say, as truly at least, ... EDMUND BURKE When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi... EDMUND BURKE Falsehood is a perennial spring. EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for... EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. EDMUND BURKE Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i... EDMUND BURKE Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. EDMUND BURKE Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. 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. EDMUND BURKE