Edmund Burke
"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
"You can never plan the future by the past."
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."