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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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Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
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Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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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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As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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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 concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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One source of the sublime is infinity.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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