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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may…
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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 is that…
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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 to the…
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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 control over…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide…
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A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on…
— Alexander Hamilton
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If you are obsessively active, please at least pause to ask yourself why and to listen for the answer from the still,…
— Sue Thoele
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to…
— Christopher Love
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You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
— Princess Diana
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...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and…
— Marquis de Sade
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I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me,…
— Alex Haley
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I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.
— Wess Stafford
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Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.
— James Patterson
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