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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Tradition
Everything
Reconciles
Reconcile
Custom
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
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Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.
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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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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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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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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 writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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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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