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Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
Topic: Lying
Source: Impeachment of Warren Hastings
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She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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The march of the human mind is slow.
Topic: Mind
Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
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It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
Topic: Mystery
Source: None
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. •Edmund Burke Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!
Topic: Nervousness
Source: None
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Topic: Nervousness
Source: None
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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
Topic: Novelty
Source: None
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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
Topic: Novelty
Source: None
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Topic: Obstinacy
Source: None
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The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded.
Topic: Past
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.
Topic: Patience
Source: Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Topic: Patience
Source: None
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Topic: Patriotism
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 331)
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Topic: Perseverance
Source: None
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Topic: Perseverance
Source: None
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Topic: Perseverance
Source: None
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Topic: Poetry
Source: None
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of
discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
Topic: Politics
Source: Reflexions on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 277)
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Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Topic: Politics
Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent
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The balance of power.
Topic: Power
Source: Speech
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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
Topic: Power
Source: None
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Turn over a new leaf.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Letter to Miss Haviland
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The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is
foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is
wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts
right.
Topic: Public
Source: in a speech, Reform of Representation in the House of Commons, May 7, 1782
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Topic: Public
Source: To Thomas Mercer
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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly
and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and
that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the
one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
Topic: Public Trust
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be
a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely
such, is a great trust.
Topic: Public Trust
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His
declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Topic: Religion
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence
of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Topic: Religion
Source: Speech on Conciliation with America
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Topic: Religion
Source: A Vindication of Natural Society--Preface (vol. I, p. 7)
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
Topic: Revolution
Source: None
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They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy,
called the rights of man.
Topic: Rights
Source: On the Army Estimates (vol. III, p. 221)
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Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
Topic: Security
Source: None
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The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us
at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest,
while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours,
has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we
pursue.
Topic: Shadows
Source: in a speech at Bristol on declining the poll
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The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder
augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly
contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in
such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary
occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort
of infinity.
Topic: Stars
Source: On the Sublime and the Beautiful--Magnificence
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken
together, would by my standard of a statesman.
Topic: Statesmanship
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Topic: Superstition
Source: None
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Topic: Tax
Source: None
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible
struggle.
Topic: Unity
Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Topic: Unity
Source: None
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Topic: Vice
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Topic: Victory
Source: None
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What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
Topic: Virtue
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Topic: War
Source: None
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But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Topic: Weakness
Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Topic: Welfare
Source: None
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises
from words.
Topic: Words
Source: Letter
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