The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund BurkeTags: evil
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Edmund BurkeTags: happiness woman admiration
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund BurkeOur patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund BurkeTags: patience
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund BurkeTags: wealth
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]
Tags: truth knowledge judgment arrogance presumption ridicule omniscience pomposity preface-to-brissot-s-address
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund BurkeThere is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund BurkeBut 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. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.
Edmund BurkeTags: truth liberty freedom virtue
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.
Edmund BurkeTags: wonder
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