"When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware……" — Alexander Hamilton
"When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared."
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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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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
— Alexander Pope
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is…
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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