Quote by Edmund Burke
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and a

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. – Edmund Burke

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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. – Jose Rizal

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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. – Helen Keller

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The great thing about getting older is that you dont lose all the other ages youve been. – Madeleine LEngle

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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. – Bjorn Borg

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Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. – Margaret Lee Runbeck

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. – W. H. Auden

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I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. Thats the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Ive always had great faith in the Man Upstairs. – Wayne Newton

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