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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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
Inspirational
Art
Men
Remaking
Life
Essentially
Finished
Creation
Theory
Religion

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When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
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Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.
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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.
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Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
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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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What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
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