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Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

Edmund Burke

Teaching, Men, Ideas

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2071, Delphi Classics

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As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

Edmund Burke

Inspirational, Pain, Flower

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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Edmund Burke

Real, Men, Design

Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke ...”, p.349

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Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

Edmund Burke

Independent, Men, Law

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.26

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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.

Edmund Burke

Men, Together, Opinion

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[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

Edmund Burke

Inspirational, Weed, Marijuana

"The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds".

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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Edmund Burke

Judging, Liberty, Civil Rights

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3831, Delphi Classics

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Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

Edmund Burke

Love, Weakness, Doe

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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Edmund Burke

Evil, Vices, Half

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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The march of the human mind is slow.

Edmund Burke

Mind, Progress, March

Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.102

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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Edmund Burke

Hate, Men, Political

1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

Edmund Burke

Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

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Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

Edmund Burke

Spring, Shadow, Credit

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.174, Penguin

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The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

Edmund Burke

Party, Judgement, Losing

'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 7

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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke

Men, Giving, Way

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1514, Delphi Classics

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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Edmund Burke

Friendship, Mind, Pleasure

Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.39

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To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

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Christian, Ambition, Rainbow

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Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

Edmund Burke

Past, Men, Decision

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.559, Transaction Publishers

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The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

Edmund Burke

Money, Foundation, Use

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1560, Delphi Classics

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Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

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Happiness, Admiration, Made

"Selected Prose".

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We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Edmund Burke

Citizens, Zealous, Affection

1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

Edmund Burke

Inspiration, Play, Perfection

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Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

Edmund Burke

Parliament, Bristol, Members

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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.

Edmund Burke

Wise, Moments, Foolish

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.398, Transaction Publishers

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Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience.

Edmund Burke

Pain, Ideas, Giving

"A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful". Treatise by Edmund Burke, www.bartleby.com. 1757.

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Born: January 12, 1729
Died: July 9, 1797
Occupation: Statesman
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