The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creatio…

Edmund Burke
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The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition. ✨ Edmund Burke (1756). The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies, p.233
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Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition. ✨ Edmund Burke (1756). The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies, p.233

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