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One source of the sublime is infinity.

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
Sublime
Source
Infinity

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Turn over a new leaf.
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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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The ocean is an object of no small terror.
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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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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Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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No men can act with effect who do not act in concert no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.
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Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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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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Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
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Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections it changes its object perpetually it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.
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