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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Inspiration
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Sibyl

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
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Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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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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To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
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Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.
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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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Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.
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