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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
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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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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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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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The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.
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That cardinal virtue, temperance.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
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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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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
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There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible the latter on small ones and pleasing we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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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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The grand instructor, time.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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