Quote #164
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
More from Edmund Burke
- What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
- Beauty is the promise of happiness.
- To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
- Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
- No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.