No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful · 1757
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Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 2, sect. 2.
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Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 2, sect. 2.
