“There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.” MadeStillsPoliticalPassionIndividualNationsPartyEffortPrinciplesVirtueSacrificeTalentStandardsPrejudiceRemainsBoresCommunionPolitical PartiesContentionBadgesCountrymenRemnantsMagnanimityRancor Author:John Quincy Adams
“The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without intelligence we should be brutes - but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.” IfsKnowsMenWorldGivingShouldSelfCharacterEyeWonderMoralSacrificeTalentQuietGoodnessIntellectualSacredTendenciesFacultyDispositionDivorcedBrutesSelf SacrificeStrength Of CharacterNature Of ManEminence Author:George Henry Lewes
“I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.” ThinkingMenSometimesValuesPiecesSacrificeTalentEssentialsObjectivesPreservesGreat MenEpicGrandeur Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.” MenWorldGivingShouldSocialNumbersMoralVirtueGraceSacrificeAdviceTalentMastersMerePhilosopherEvery ManScholarPossessedPlatoAdviseComplacencyScarceMoral VirtuesPlato S Book:The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index Source: The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index
“How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.” MenEnergySacrificeTalentEmotionalHe ManRegretPerpetualDependenceI Regret Author:Sophia Tolstaya
“The Church and the world and women are crying for men, men who are developing their capacity and talents, who are willing to work and make sacrifices, who will help others achieve happiness and salvation.” MenWorldHelpingChurchSacrificeAchieveTalentCryWillingCapacitySalvationHelping OthersDeveloping Author:D. Todd Christofferson