Infancy Quote by Henry Bolingbroke Download Open image “Nations, like men, have their infancy.” — Henry Bolingbroke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infancy Men Nations
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always… — Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett Copy Share Image
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles,… — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
