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It must have been no more than 3 feet onto his land, it is above head height, the bottom of the branches start at about 8 feet high and we have cut off the branches lower down to be amiable with them. – Bharat Mistry	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It certainly stands out as the most enthusiastic, amiable relationship... it's unprecedented. – Charlie Beckett	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference? – John Adams	added by Normando 4 years ago
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. – Sophie Swetchine	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails. – Queen Victoria	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination. – Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. – John Henry Cardinal Newman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable. – Samuel Butler	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A man's errors are what make him amiable. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. – John Henry Newman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It must have been no more than 3 feet onto his land, it is above head height, the bottom of the branches start at about 8 feet high and we have cut off the branches lower down to be amiable with them.

– Bharat Mistry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It certainly stands out as the most enthusiastic, amiable relationship... it's unprecedented.

– Charlie Beckett

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

– John Adams

added by Normando
4 years ago

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

– Sophie Swetchine

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

– Queen Victoria

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

– Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

– John Henry Cardinal Newman

added by anonymous
13 years ago

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.

– Samuel Butler

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

– Johann von Goethe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

– Charles Caleb Colton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.

– Benjamin Disraeli

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

– John Henry Newman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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