Quote by Edmund Burke
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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Caution
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes … theyre just friends waiting to be made. – Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

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Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. – Albert Perry

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The ones who count are those persons who – Martin Buber

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People are like holidays. Do others see you as Christmas, or more like Tax Day? – Terri Guillemets

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Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself. – Henry Reed

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It is of course possible to dance a prayer. – Terri Guillemets

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