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The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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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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Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
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He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
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No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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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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By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.
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We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
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There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
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Guilt was never a rational thing it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
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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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
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Continue to instruct the world and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.
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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.
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