Quote by Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he c

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – Edmund Burke

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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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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. – Wilfred Grenfell

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. – Cicero

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We can do no great things, only small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

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Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude. – Ernest Hello

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Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. – Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy, 1994

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Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family. – Mink Stole

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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness werent created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. – Camille Paglia

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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature. – Christopher Morley

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