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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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The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
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Continue to instruct the world and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.
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Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
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I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
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The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement not to compound with our Condition but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions any bungler can add to the old but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
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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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Man is by his constitution a religious animal atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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