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An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
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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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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Responsibility prevents crimes.
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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
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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 the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
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There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
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To execute laws is a royal office to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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