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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

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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Statesman
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Dublin city
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That cardinal virtue, temperance.
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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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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.
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Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder it loads us more than millions of debt takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
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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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It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.
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We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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