Quote by Edmund Burke
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. - Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke

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Society
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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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Imagination
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. – Edmund Burke

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Change
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The primary and most beautiful of Natures qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. – Marquis de Sade

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Nature

The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir

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Nature

If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham

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Nature

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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Nature

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. – Barbara Sher

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No one ever said on their deathbed, Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer. – Danielle Berry

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I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and its really amazing. – Emily Procter

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Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. – Erich Fromm

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