Henry Bolingbroke Quotes

• The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

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  Real   Knowledge   Principles  

  "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolever, 1891.

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• You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

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  Crush   Peace   War  

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• Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

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  Atheism   Drs   Might  

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• Nations, like men, have their infancy.

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  Men   Infancy   Nations  

  "Letters on the Study and Use of History". Book by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Letter 4, 1752.

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• Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

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  Pride   Men   Dignity  

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• Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

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  Patriotism   Virtue   Principal  

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