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• I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

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  Struggle, Greatness, Honor

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London, relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris ... The seventh edition”, p.74

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• I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

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  Victory, Wish, Noble

  Mary Leadbeater, Edmund Burke, Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench, George Crabbe (1862). “The Leadbeater Papers: Unpublished letters of Edmund Burke, and the correspondence of Mrs. Richard Trench and Rev. George Crabbe”, p.126

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• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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  Passion, Soul, Intuition

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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• Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

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  Evil, Anticipation

  "Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace".

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• Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

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  Injustice, Ministers, Fraud

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.282

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• Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

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  Kings, Gentleman, May

  Letter to William Smith, 29 January 1795, in 'The Correspondence of Edmund Burke' vol. 8 (1969)

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• He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

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  Block, Tree, Chips

  1781 Commenting on William Pitt theYounger's maiden speech in the House of Commons, 26 Feb.

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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.

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  Love, Weakness, Doe

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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.

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  Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

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

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• Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

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  Fall, Political, Quality

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.87

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

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  Real, Men, Design

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

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• All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

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  Honesty, Government, Giving

  Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of ... “A Vindication of Natural Society.” With Notes and an Appendix, Etc”, p.17

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• When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

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  Jealous, History, Proud

  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.86

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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.

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  Spring, Shadow, Credit

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

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• The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

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  Fear, Weakness, Weak

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

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  Hate, Men, Political

  1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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• The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

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  Pride, Men, Advice

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

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  Business, Add, Taxation

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.151

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• He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

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  Remember, Corruption, Accusation

  Edmund Burke (2015). “A Letter On the Affairs of America”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

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  Courage, Fear, Reptiles

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

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  Science, Water, Suffering

  "On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord".

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

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  Men, Giving, Way

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

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

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

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  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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• 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.

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  Parliament, Bristol, Members

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