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Human Quotes by Edmund Burke
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
- All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
- The march of the human mind is slow.
- A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins…
- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
- I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of…
- The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.
- Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
- God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad…
- Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
- Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of…
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