Quote by Edmund Burke
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. – Edmund Burke

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It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. – Edmund Burke

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Justice & Law
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – Edmund Burke

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Shame
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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Time
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. – Elizabeth Bowen

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. – Pierre De Beaumarchais

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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. – Blaise Pascal

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The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough. – George W. Bush

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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. – Ambrose Bierce

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