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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

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
Life
Circumspection
Caution
Wisdom
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To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
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When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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That cardinal virtue, temperance.
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Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
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Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.
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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 nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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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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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights but not to equal things.
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
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The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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