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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.
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There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
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But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections it changes its object perpetually it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.
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Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
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The grand instructor, time.
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One source of the sublime is infinity.
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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The individual is foolish the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
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The parties are the gamesters but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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But 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.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
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