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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘Letter to the Sheriffs <strong>of</strong> Bristol’ (1777) p. 71<br />

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side <strong>of</strong> their natural propensities.<br />

‘Letters on a Regicide Peace’ Letter 1 (1796)<br />

Example is the school <strong>of</strong> mankind, and they will learn at no other.<br />

‘Letters on a Regicide Peace’ Letter 1 (1796)<br />

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.<br />

‘Letters on a Regicide Peace’ Letter 3 (1797)<br />

Well it is known that ambition can creep as well as soar.<br />

‘Letters on a Regicide Peace’ Letter 3 (1797)<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.<br />

‘Observations on a late Publication on the Present State <strong>of</strong> the Nation’ (1769)<br />

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most<br />

anxious for its welfare.<br />

‘Observations on...the Present State <strong>of</strong> the Nation’ (1769)<br />

No passion so effectually robs the mind <strong>of</strong> all its powers <strong>of</strong> acting and reasoning as fear.<br />

‘On the Sublime and Beautiful’ (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2<br />

Custom reconciles us to everything.<br />

‘On the Sublime and Beautiful’ (1757) pt. 4, sect. 18<br />

I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman.<br />

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790) p. 7<br />

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on<br />

our own.<br />

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790) p. 10<br />

A state without the means <strong>of</strong> some change is without the means <strong>of</strong> its conservation.<br />

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790) p. 29<br />

Make the Revolution a parent <strong>of</strong> settlement, and not a nursery <strong>of</strong> future revolutions.<br />

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790) p. 38<br />

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.<br />

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790) p. 47<br />

Government is a contrivance <strong>of</strong> human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right<br />

that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.<br />

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790) p. 88<br />

<strong>The</strong> age <strong>of</strong> chivalry is gone.—That <strong>of</strong> sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;<br />

and the glory <strong>of</strong> Europe is extinguished for ever.<br />

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790) p. 112<br />

<strong>The</strong> unbought grace <strong>of</strong> life, the cheap defence <strong>of</strong> nations, the nurse <strong>of</strong> manly sentiment and<br />

heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility <strong>of</strong> principle, that chastity <strong>of</strong> honour, which<br />

felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled<br />

whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.<br />

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790) p. 113

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