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• No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Healing, Voice

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].”, p.33

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• In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

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  Jobs, Exercise, Office

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1453, Delphi Classics

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• England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

  Edmund Burke

  History, Together, Littles

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.404, University of Chicago Press

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• It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

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  Drawing, Ideas, People

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.201, Transaction Publishers

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• He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

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  Understanding, Use, Aids

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• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

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  Feelings, Looks, Delight

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• Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

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  Ambition, Power, May

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.116

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• It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

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  People, Care, May

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.126

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• Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

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  Wise, Men, Names

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.267

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• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

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  Disappointment, Design, Judgement

  "The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes", Vol. IX, Boston: Little, Brown, 1839.

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• No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

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  Government, People, Principles

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• Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

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  Men, Hands, Care

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.498

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• An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

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  Ideas, Solitude, Purpose

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

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  Power, Hands, Guilty

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.46

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• We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 30

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• Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

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  Enemy, Able, Kind

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

  Edmund Burke

  May, Language, Clearness

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.187

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• There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

  Edmund Burke

  Witty, Knowledge, Important

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• The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

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  Excess, Causes, Ridiculous

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

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  War, Fall, Law

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

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  Abuse, Protection, Reverence

  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.178

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• To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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  Letting Go, Powerful, Reflection

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.251, CUP Archive

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• In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

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  Country, War, Blood

  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”, p.49

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• Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

  Edmund Burke

  Europe, Whales, Spain

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• I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

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  Effort, Election, Proportion

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2600, Delphi Classics

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