Edmund Burke Quotes

492 quotes · Philosopher, Politician

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Edmund Burke Quotes

All Philosophical Courageous Wise Angry Hopeful 492 quotes · page 22 of 41

Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

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

Knows Adversity Instructors

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Courageous

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

Men Real Design

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Wise

“The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.”

Independent Decree

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Happy

“Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.”

Kind Pleasure

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Love

“An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.”

Beauty Essentials Fragility

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Love

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

Happiness Made

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Love

“A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.”

Light Jealousy

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Creative

“Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.”

Art Born Partnership

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Grateful

“Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.”

Play House Fire

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Philosophical

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

Evil Half

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Courageous

“The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.”

Fear Weakness

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Wise

“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.”

Wise Moments Foolish

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