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• The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.

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  Art, Men, Mind

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• Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

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  Years, Hypocrisy, Together

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.149

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• Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Art

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• The wisdom of our ancestors.

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  Wisdom, Ancestor

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.271, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

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  Sympathy, Condolences, Passion

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

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  Riches, Limits, Frugality

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

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  Beauty, Essentials, Fragility

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.121

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

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  Kings, People, Flattery

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.37

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• They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

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  Distance, Snuff, Breeze

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

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• Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

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  Eye, Thinking, Blood

  Edmund Burke (1919). “Speech on Conciliation with America”

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• 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.

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  Men, Empathy, Feelings

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.76, Delphi Classics

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• Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

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  Gambling, Principles, Human Nature

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• The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

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  Wisdom, Mind, Stronger

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

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• Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

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  Men, Evil, Good Man

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• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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  Passion, Soul, Causes

  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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• Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

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  Mean, Civilization, Two

  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.127

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• I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

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  Age, Looks, Gone

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.149

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• In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated people are but ordinary observers of things, and not critical in distinguishing them; but, for that reason, they admire more, and are more affected with what they see, and therefore express themselves in a warmer and more passionate manner.

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  Expression, People, Energy

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.188

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• The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

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  Names, Ideas, Hatred

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.33, Delphi Classics

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• Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

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  Government, Want, Humans

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 88

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• War never leaves where it found a nation.

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  War, Found, Nations

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.163

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• Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

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  Men, Mind, Vices

  Edmund Burke (1882). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”

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• Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

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  Anxiety, Curiosity, Affection

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.24

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• 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.

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  Exercise, Attention, Taste

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.87

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• War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.

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  War, Views, Political

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.58, Transaction Publishers

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