Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious — John Owen Copy Share Image
She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which… — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of… — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love? — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image