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«A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival»
«Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations»
«Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Passion,
Poetry
| Keywords:
dominion, obscurity
«It is a general error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare»
«Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
guidepost, guideposts, landmark, landmarks
«Make the revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
nursery, settlement, settlements, The Settlement
«It is one of the finest problems in legislation, what the state ought to take upon itself to direct and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual discretion»
«Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring withtheir importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle. . . chewthe cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make thenoise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they aremany in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome _insects_ ofthe hour.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
chew, chink, Chinks, cud, fern, grasshopper, grasshoppers, half a dozen, half dozen, importunate, oak, reposed, the British
«To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty»
«It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration»
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