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Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
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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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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.
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When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
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The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.
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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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To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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The ocean is an object of no small terror.
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There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
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It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin and about as valuable.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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