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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 17 of 40 · ~256 words · public domain

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I would carry the wood to burn my own son withal

I regard my country's profit, not my own

I will never live, to see the end of my poverty

Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned upon nations

Idiotic principle of sumptuary legislation

Idle, listless, dice-playing, begging, filching vagabonds

If he had little, he could live upon little

If to do be as grand as to imagine what it were good to do

If he has deserved it, let them strike off his head

Ignoble facts which strew the highways of political life

Ignorance is the real enslaver of mankind

Imagined, and did the work of truth

Imagining that they held the world's destiny in their hands

Impatience is often on the part of the non-combatants

Implication there was much, of assertion very little

Imposed upon the multitudes, with whom words were things

Impossible it is to practise arithmetic with disturbed brains

Impossible it was to invent terms of adulation too gross

In revolutions the men who win are those who are in earnest

In character and general talents he was beneath mediocrity

In times of civil war, to be neutral is to be nothing

In Holland, the clergy had neither influence nor seats

In this he was much behind his age or before it

Incur the risk of being charged with forwardness than neglect

Indecision did the work of indolence

Indignant that heretics had been suffered to hang

Individuals walking in advance of their age

Indoor home life imprisons them in the domestic circle

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