Quote by Edmund Burke
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existe

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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Shame
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke

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Men
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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Taxation
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A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways theyre capable of understanding. – Steve Prefontaine

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I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood Im in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good. – Jerry Saltz

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. – Honore de Balzac

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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. – Robert Frost

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Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Im not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed. – Karl Lagerfeld

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For visions come not to polluted eyes. – Mary Howitt

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. – Barbara Walters

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