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Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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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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Man is by his constitution a religious animal atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
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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 tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
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It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.
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War is the matter which fills all history and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.
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Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights but not to equal things.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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Oppression makes wise men mad but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
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The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
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