01c. 1763 ADIs it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more equal to that task.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
03c. 1763 ADLeave a man to his passions, and you leave a wild beast of a savage and capricious nature.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
05c. 1763 ADManners are of more importance than laws; upon them in a great measure laws depend.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
09c. 1763 ADPeople, crushed by laws, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous, more or less.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
10c. 1763 ADPoetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
11c. 1763 ADPortrait-painting may be to the painter what the practical knowledge of the world is to the poet, provided he considers it as a school by which he is to acquire the means of perfection in his art, and not as the object of that perfection.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
12c. 1763 ADRestraint and discipline, examples of virtue and of justice, these are what form the education of the world.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
13c. 1763 AD"Revenge is a kind of wild justice." It is so, but without this wild austere stock there would be no justice in the world.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
15c. 1763 ADThe age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
16c. 1763 ADThe blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity, the rest is crime.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
17c. 1763 ADThe great error of our nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable acquirement, not to compound with our condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
18c. 1763 ADThe nearer we approach the goal of life, the better we begin to understand the true value of our existence, and the real weight of our opinions.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
19c. 1763 ADThe nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders—these are the masters of victory.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
20c. 1763 ADThe only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
21c. 1763 ADThe perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Æolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
22c. 1763 ADThe severe and restrictive virtues are almost too costly for humanity.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
24c. 1763 ADThe wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
