Quotes with wrecks

  • 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 have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

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  • William Shakespeare But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • 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 have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • William Allen White Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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