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Strewn Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and…
- The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
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- The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the… — Yoshida Kenko
- Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are… — Madame de Stael
- Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- .. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals. — G. Stanley Hall
- History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of… — Walter Bagehot
- You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength… — Pier Giorgio Frassati
- Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin
- This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may… — Richard Blumenthal
- Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is… — Guy Murchie
- Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. — Le Corbusier
- People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it… — Don DeLillo