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The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement not to compound with our Condition but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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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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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
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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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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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