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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
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Dublin city
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.
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Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.
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For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever
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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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