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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
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Dublin city
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Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.
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War is the matter which fills all history and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.
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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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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
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The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.
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