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Makes Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He…
- We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as…
- The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to…
- The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends…
- There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most…
- Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine