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They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

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
Ought
Hate
Never
Love

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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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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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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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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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The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin and about as valuable.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
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It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.
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Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
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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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I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
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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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