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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Freedom
Power
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Work
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Abuse
Dangerous
Liberty
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.
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Nothing is so rash as fear and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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