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Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Edmund Burke

Art, Men, Prejudice

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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

Edmund Burke

Wise, Business, Add

Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.157

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For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

Edmund Burke

Mean, Power, Politics

"The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke".

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A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Edmund Burke

Law, Justice, Investing

Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.176, Oxford University Press on Demand

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Where mystery begins religion ends.

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Mystery, Ends

Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.176, Oxford University Press on Demand

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But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

Edmund Burke

Eye, Leader, Curiosity

Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.168, Oxford University Press on Demand

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There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

Edmund Burke

Despair, Doe, Circumstances

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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

Edmund Burke

Sublime, Style, Easy

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They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Edmund Burke

Hate, Ought

Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke ...”, p.81

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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Edmund Burke

May, Virtue, Health Care

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Edmund Burke

Forgiving, Adultery, Murder

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Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

Edmund Burke

Powerful, Enthusiasm, Causes

Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.9

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There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Edmund Burke

Lying, Understanding, Doe

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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Edmund Burke

Evil, Calling, Reformation

Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated: Being a Reprint of [his] Essay, "A Vindication of Natural Society": with Notes and an Appendix”, p.35

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In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

Edmund Burke

Passion, Hands, Style

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.435

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It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.

Edmund Burke

Imagination, Understanding, Mind

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It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

Edmund Burke

Loss, Men, Political

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.433, Penguin

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I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

Edmund Burke

Book, Law, Branches

Edmund Burke (1777). “The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.382

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I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

Edmund Burke

Profound, Perfect, Principles

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.269

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The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

Edmund Burke

Ideas, People, Principles

Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.109

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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Edmund Burke

America, People, Bones

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.82

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It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.

Edmund Burke

Men, Years, People

Edmund Burke (1756). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies”, p.311

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Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Edmund Burke

Prejudice, Purpose, Reason

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

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Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

Edmund Burke

Mean, Views, Government

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.75

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To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.

Edmund Burke

God, Eye

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