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Time Quotes by Edmund Burke
- You can never plan the future by the past.
- Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
- 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…
- In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
- General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
- When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to…
- The grand instructor, time.
- "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He…
- Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment…
- The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is…
- You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community…
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