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• The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

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  Teaching, Investigation, Method

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

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• The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, Principles, Moments

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• Education is a nation's cheapest defence

  Edmund Burke

  Historical, Defence, Nations

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• The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

  Edmund Burke

  Perseverance, Eye, Victory

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• Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Too Much, Masters

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.77

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• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

  Edmund Burke

  Reality, Mind, Body

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• It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

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  Business, World, Wealth

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.406, University of Chicago Press

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• There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

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  Differences, Sublime, And Love

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.118

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• True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

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  Religion, Foundation, Fabric

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• Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

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  Life, Caution, Circumspection

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.80

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• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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  Birthday, Europe, Forever

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

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  World, Vex, Arise

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.58

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• General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

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  Freedom, People, Democracy

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.106

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• And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

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  Hands, Government Welfare, Scarcity

  'Thoughts and Details on Scarcity' (1800)

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• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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  Peace, Passion, Creativity

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.422

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• Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

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  Political, Directors, Firsts

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.53

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• A great empire and little minds go ill together.

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  Mind, Together, Littles

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

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  Power, Men, World

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.23

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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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  Children, School, Example

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 1 (1796)

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

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  Adversity, Instructors, Knows

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• To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

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  Country, Peace, War

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

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  Passion, Suffering, Rebel

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• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

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  Inspirational, Government, Doe

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

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  Motivational, Time, Men

  Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.213

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• My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

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  Good Friend, Men, Self

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.212

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