Inclines Quotes

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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself — Samuel Johnson
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has… — Samuel Johnson
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once… — Lance Armstrong
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five… — Jonathan Swift
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can… — Blaise Pascal
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves… — Leo Tolstoy
And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him. — Arthur Hugh Clough
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition. — Baron de Montesquieu
Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come… — William C. Bryant
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable… — Henry Fielding
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered… — Jean Cocteau
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former… — Blaise Pascal
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. — Thomas Fuller
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which… — Quentin Crisp

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