Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burkewas an Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after moving to London, served as a member of parliamentfor many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 January 1729
CountryIreland
wisdom instructors
The grand instructor, time.
wisdom nature health
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
wise wisdom art
Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success
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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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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.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
love doe weakness
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.