Edmund Burke
Ireland
12 Jan 1729 // 9 Jul 1797
Statesman / Author / Orator/ Philosopher
12 Jan 1729 // 9 Jul 1797
Statesman / Author / Orator/ Philosopher
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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts
The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders - these are the masters of victory
The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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