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Inclination Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
- It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
- I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would…
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so…
- Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than…
More Inclination Quotes
- I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson
- Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an… — Pope Benedict XVI
- In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific… — Edmund Burke
- Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. — Jimmy Carter
- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the… — Henry David Thoreau