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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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
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Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.
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Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.
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The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
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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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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
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