Lost Nation

Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or nation:

    Your love by ours we measure
    Till we have lost our treasure,
    But dying is a pleasure,
    When living is a pain.
    John Dryden (1631–1700)

    Every nation ... have their refinements and grossiertes.... There is a balance ... of good and bad every where; and nothing but the knowing it is so can emancipate one half of the world from the prepossessions which it holds against the other—that [was] the advantage of travel ... it taught us mutual toleration; and mutual toleration ... taught us mutual love.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)