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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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For who would live if life held no allurements?
— Lewis Howard Latimer
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I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it…
— Homer
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My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to…
— David Brainerd
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Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.
— Nicolas Poussin
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and…
— Johann Arndt
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The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and…
— Winston Churchill
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Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external…
— John Calvin
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