“The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”
Time
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
BeautyAll Quotes by Edmund Burke
“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
Great“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
Good“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
Beauty“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
Government“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
Power“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
Age“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
Nature“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Good“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
Imagination“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Good“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
Change“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
Men“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
Great“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
Patience“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
Education“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
Society“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
Art“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”
Business“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.”
Wisdom