Quotes from authors born in 1729
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
Moses Mendelssohn
John Cheever 
Laura Ashley 
Glenn Hughes 
James Taylor 
Armistead Maupin 
Donna Karan 
Charles Townshend 
Karel Capek