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We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults


Edmund Gibson

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SAMUEL BECKETT A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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EDMUND WALLER Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
EDMUND WALLER Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
EDMUND WALLER How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
EDMUND WALLER Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to the...
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EDMUND WALLER Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
EDMUND WALLER All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
EDMUND WALLER The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
EDMUND WALLER To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
EDMUND WALLER Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
EDMUND WALLER The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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EDMUND SPENSER What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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EDMUND HILLARY No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
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EDMUND HILLARY I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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EDMUND BURKE The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses...
EDMUND WALLER The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
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EDMUND BURKE There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
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EDMUND SPENSER Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSER Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
EDMUND SPENSER It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
EDMUND SPENSER Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
EDMUND SPENSER Anger manages everything badly.
EDMUND SPENSER There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]
EDMUND SPENSER Although the last, not least.
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EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
EDMUND MUSKE Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
EDMUND SPENSER Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those...
EDMUND ROSTAND Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
EDMUND BURKE Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must ...
EDMUND BURKE Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve...
EDMUND BURKE Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
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