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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
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An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
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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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It is the love of the people it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
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As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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