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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

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
Facts
Reality
Body
Mind
Food

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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
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Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
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In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
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The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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