"There is a contagion in example which few……" — Alexander Hamilton
"There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist."
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352 Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious…
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error…
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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion…
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge…
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But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to…
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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
— Tony Blair
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I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I…
— Steve Carell
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I…
— Louis Pasteur
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Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
— William Shakespeare
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.
— Marc Ian Barasch
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of…
— Victor Hugo
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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.
— Robert Holden
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