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.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Real, Knowledge, Principles

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

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

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Patriotism, Virtue, Principal

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

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Pride, Men, Dignity

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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.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Crush, Peace, War

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• Nations, like men, have their infancy.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  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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• 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.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Atheism, Drs, Might

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