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• Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Stupid, Russia

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused on other projects to improve the basin - sometimes big projects.

  Rex Norman

  Mean, Reality, Lakes

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• Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Children, Father, Heart

  "Rule of St. Benedict". Book by Benedict of Nursia, c. AD 480–550.

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• I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

  Theodor Herzl

  Mistake, People, Ambitious

  Theodor Herzl (2015). “A Jewish State: Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The Lord doesn't care at all if we spend our days working in marble halls or stable stalls. He knows where we are, no matter how humble our circumstances. He will use - in his own way and for his holy purposes - those who incline their hearts to Him.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Humble, Purpose

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• Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

  Harold Nicolson

  Team, Personality, Surrender

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• 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 nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Kindness, Men

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

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• If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Democracy, Too Much, Monarchy

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.417

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• 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 in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.

  Lance Armstrong

  Nice, One Day, Different

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• Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

  John Dryden

  Art, Hard Work, Science

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Sweet, Reading

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.120

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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

  Pride, Men, Vices

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [chiefly of Johnson, ed. by T. Davies]. By S. Johnson”, p.359

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• 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 given him something peculiar to himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Being Yourself, Believe, Being Single

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.37, Univ of California Press

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• Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Humanity, Existence

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.396

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• I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Fashion, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

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• 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 with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Sacrifice, Principles, Complacency

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.440, Bantam Classics

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• Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Views, Choices

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• The path to eternal life is not on a plateau. Rather, it is an incline, ever onward and upward. Hence, ever-increasing spiritual understanding and energy are required to reach our destination. Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.

  Keith K. Hilbig

  Spiritual, Onward And Upward, Understanding

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• Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

  Salvador Dali

  Sex, Accomplish Nothing, Self

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• 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 barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dog, Horse, Lying

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• If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

  Kang Youwei

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

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• When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill -- whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  1970 Political History, ch.2.

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• Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Suffering, Coping

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics

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• God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Generosity, Grace, Showers

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• The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, Stories, Creation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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