Edmund Burke Quotes

492 quotes · Philosopher, Politician

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Edmund Burke Quotes

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Creative

“It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.”

Exercise Attention Taste

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Lonely

“There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.”

Men Feelings Empathy

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Grateful

“Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.”

Mother Fear

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Grateful

“Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.”

Limits Riches

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Philosophical

“You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.”

World Political Struggle

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Philosophical

“As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.”

Way Failing Talent

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Philosophical

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

May Virtue

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Philosophical

“Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.”

Powerful Causes

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Philosophical

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

People America Bones

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Philosophical

“Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.”

Men Taken Understanding

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Philosophical

“Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.”

Humanity Humility

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Courageous

“Evil succeeds when good men do nothing”

Men Evil

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