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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Truly
Style
Natural
Easy
Always
Sublime

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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
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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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I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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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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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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