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Edmund Burke

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Irish poet, fl. 1856, whose only work was a book of poems called Musings in the Village Haunts.


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Quote Left You can never plan the future by the past. Quote Right
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Quote Left The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Imagination Quote Right
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