Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas!… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive. — James Hilton Copy Share Image
The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
And I will trust that He who heeds The life that hides in mead and wold, Who hangs you alder's crimson beads,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline… — Kang Youwei Copy Share Image
I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“They say that people standing on a height have an impulse to throw themselves down. I imagine that many suicides and murders… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
