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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/i-decline-the-election-it-has-ever-been-my-rule-through-life-to/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/the-great-error-of-our-nature-is-not-to-know-where-to-stop-not-to-be/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/there-is-nothing-in-the-world-really-beneficial-that-does-not-lie/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/it-is-by-bribing-not-so-often-by-being-bribed-that-wicked-politicians/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/by-looking-into-physical-causes-our-minds-are-opened-and-enlarged-and/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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## Other authors on Pursuit

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- [Samuel Johnson 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/samuel-johnson/)
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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-dickens-22226.jpg) Charles Dickens 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/charles-dickens/)
- [Ralph Waldo Emerson 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/ralph-waldo-emerson/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plato-75782.jpg) Plato 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/plato/)
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## More by Edmund Burke

> [It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/it-is-the-interest-of-the-commercial-world-that-wealth-should-be/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/many-of-the-greatest-tyrants-on-the-records-of-history-have-begun/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/in-this-choice-of-inheritance-we-have-given-to-our-frame-of-polity/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/wise-men-will-apply-their-remedies-to-vices-not-to-names-to-the/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/a-man-full-of-warm-speculative-benevolence-may-wish-his-society/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/my-vigour-relents-i-pardon-something-to-the-spirit-of-liberty/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/a-speculative-despair-is-unpardonable-where-it-our-duty-to-act/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/the-great-must-submit-to-the-dominion-of-prudence-and-of-virtue-or/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/those-who-have-been-once-intoxicated-with-power-and-have-derived-any/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/what-is-it-we-all-seek-for-in-an-election-to-answer-its-real-purposes/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/society-is-indeed-a-contract-it-is-a-partnership-in-all-science-a/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [You can never plan the future by the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/you-can-never-plan-the-future-by-the-past/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/the-great-inlet-by-which-a-colour-for-oppression-has-entered-into-the/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/by-the-disposition-of-a-stupendous-wisdom-moulding-together-the-great/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

> [Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/religion-to-have-any-force-upon-men-s-understandings-indeed-to-exist/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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