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Proportion Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
- It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
- Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of…
- "What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their…
- If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is…
More Proportion Quotes
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake
- To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake
- Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright