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Edmund Burke Quotes about Greatness

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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Edmund Burke
Struggle, Greatness, Men
Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.164

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Edmund Burke
Greatness, Men, States
Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2433, Delphi Classics

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Edmund Burke
Greatness, Long, Dominion
Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Edmund Burke
Nature, Greatness, Statistics
Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

Edmund Burke
Struggle, Greatness, Honor
Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London, relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris ... The seventh edition”, p.74

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