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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
Philosopher
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Dublin city
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.
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Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
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Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
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Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
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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 ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
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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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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One source of the sublime is infinity.
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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