Perhaps we make too much of what is wrong and too little of what is right. The trouble with gloom is that it feeds upon itself and depression causes more depression.

Queen Elizabeth II

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It is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.

Winston Churchill

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I do not admire people who are wise after the event. I would rather be impaled on the other horn of the dilemma and be called one of the "I told you so's."

Winston Churchill

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When you have to hold a hot coffee-pot, it is better not to break the handle off.

Winston Churchill

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Persevere towards those objectives which are lighted for us by all the wisdom and inspiration of the past.

Winston Churchill

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But on the whole it is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.

Winston Churchill

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