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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
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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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True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.
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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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Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
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As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
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An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
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