Best human-nature & glory Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.”

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Book:Logic, or the right use of reason in the inquiry after truth

Source: Logic, or the right use of reason in the inquiry after truth

“[T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.”

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Author:David Millar

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

“Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.”

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Book:The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H. G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H. G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791

“Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.”

Humans Happiness Human Nature Promise Glory Driven Being True Folly Who We Are Horizon Engines Heroic Glimpse Attainment Restlessness Beyond The Horizon

Book:Happiness

Source: Happiness

“Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.”

Humans Pleasure Human Nature Glory Shame Lust Excess Abyss Scorn

Author:Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

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