Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (September 16, 1678 – December 12, 1751) was an English statesman and philosopher.
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- Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
- Reflections upon Exile (1716)
- Nations, like men, have their infancy.
- On the Study and Use of History, letter 4 (1752)
- They (Thucydides and Xenophon) ,aintained the dignity of history.
- On the Study and Use of History, letter 5 (1752)
- It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.
- Letter to Alexander Pope
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- Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
- Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
- The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
- 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.
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