Things which are terrible are always great; but when things possess disagreeable qualities, or such as have indeed some degree of danger, but of a danger easily overcome, they are merely odious
 Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). copy citation

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Author Edmund Burke
Source A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Topic danger quality
Date 1757
Language English
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