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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

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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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
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Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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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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Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
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