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Littles Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
- Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
- There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall,…
- By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
- The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
- England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too…
- The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
- A great empire and little minds go ill together.
- I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
- Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow…
- To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)…
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian…
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