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1 " it were better to get simplicity, if certainty is not to be had, "
― Edmund Burke , The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
2 " More observe the characters of men than the order of things: to the one we are formed by Nature, and by that sympathy from which we are so strongly led to take a part in the passions and manners of our fellow-men; the other is, as it were, foreign and extrinsical. "
3 " The Church, like every body corporate, may alter her laws without changing her identity. "
4 " I know there is an order that keeps things fast in their place: it is made to us, and we are made to it. Why not ask another wife, other children, another body, another mind? "
5 " Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners. "
6 " timid piety, which utterly disqualifies for government; "
7 " there was no foreign war, because this prince was always ready for war. "
8 " they never thought of entering into any alliance against them; they equally neglected the other obvious method to prevent their incursions, which was, to carry the war into the invaders' country. "
9 " Great designs may be started and the spirit of them inspired by enthusiasts, but cool heads are required to bring them into form. "
10 " Stephen felt personally these inconveniences; but because the evil was too stubborn to be redressed at once, he resolved to proceed gradually, "
11 " he was, indeed, arrived at that pitch of greatness, that the means of his ruin could only be found in his own family. "