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.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is...

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is...

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only...

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes,...

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes,...

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in...

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn...

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn...

Public calamity is a mighty leveler

Public calamity is a mighty leveler

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we...

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we...

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.