Edmund Burke's Quote - No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of actin

Quote by Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of actin

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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Good order is the foundation of all great things. – Edmund Burke

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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. – Edmund Burke

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. – Ben Stein

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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies resources, and minimized their own. – Titus Livius

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Excessive fear is always powerless. – Aeschylus

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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose. – Dan Gable

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