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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
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Natural
Easy
Always
Sublime
Truly

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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
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As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
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It is the love of the people it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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The individual is foolish the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
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