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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
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
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Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
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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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Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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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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Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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That cardinal virtue, temperance.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Nothing is so rash as fear and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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