Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. Henry Bolingbroke More Quotes by Henry Bolingbroke More Quotes From Henry Bolingbroke 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 principles real knowledge Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. Henry Bolingbroke principal patriotism virtue 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 war peace Nations, like men, have their infancy. Henry Bolingbroke infancy nations men 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 drs atheism might We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. Henry Bolingbroke
