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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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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Virtue
Happy
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Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
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But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
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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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The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
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Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
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True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
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