Quotes
Quotes about Nation
Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
The world in all doth but two nations bear,--
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 't will be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
And thought the nation ne'er would thrive
Till all the whores were burnt alive.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
And deal damnation round the land.
The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
But who can paint
Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The applause of list'ning senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
While Resignation gently slopes away,
And all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past.
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,--glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy.... Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,--in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
