Ignorant Bliss Quotes

• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Education   Freedom   War  

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

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  Hartley Coleridge

  Choices   Ignorant   Slavery  

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.298

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• If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

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  Simone Elkeles

  Ignorant   Rumor   Want  

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• And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

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  Simone Elkeles

  Ignorant   Want   Bliss  

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

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  Barry Privett

  Pain   Unique   Childhood  

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• This isn’t happening to you, princess,” Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. “This is happening to us. While you spent the past few months prancing around in ignorant bliss, we were all being possessed, or kidnapped, or stalked by this hellion. So dry your tears and take off the tiara, because this is a call to arms, not a pity party. You’re not going to find any sympathy here.

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  Rachel Vincent

  Party   Princess   Past  

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.236, Harlequin

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