A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Edmund Burke

5 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriæ of old eruptions, grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine, and the sustaining corn. -— filed under Denominationalism
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.— filed under God's Faithfulness
What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.— filed under Liberty
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and an imitation of His perfections.— filed under Religion
That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.— filed under Mystery
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