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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.


James Lee Burke

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EDMUND BURKE If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
EDMUND BURKE It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations d...
EDMUND BURKE Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
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