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Action Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of…
- You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the…
- Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
- All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing
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