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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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Nothing is so rash as fear and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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