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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
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Dublin city
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Guilt was never a rational thing it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The parties are the gamesters but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
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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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Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
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No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
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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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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.
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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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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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