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• When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

  Honore de Balzac

  Horse, Heart, Intelligent

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• Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dream, Home, Gentleman

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• That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.

  Ovid

  Pleasure

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• Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues have something in them so inviting and genial, and the public virtues of the citizen something so grand and inspiring, that even he who is barely uncorrupted, is seldom able to resist their charm.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Selfish, Men, Savages

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 8, 1792.

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• Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Children, Book, Character

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal.

  Theophilus London

  Email, Dinner, Anna

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• Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

  Haim Ginott

  Wise, Teenager, Fighting

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• The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

  William O. Douglas

  Use, Violence, Persuasion

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.

  Tibullus

  War, Steps, Madness

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• Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

  Summer Sanders

  Pool, Seems

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• I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend.

  Eric Lindros

  Winter, Weekend, Phones

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• I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’...

  Dan T. Cathy

  Thinking, Fists, Judgment

  "The Prideful, Arrogant President of Chick-fil-A" by Jesse Bering, www.slate.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

  Joel Edgerton

  Drama, Thinking, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

  David Gallagher

  Football, Team, School

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• Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Heart, Creating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

  Luigi Pirandello

  Women, Eye, Example

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

  Sally Quinn

  Funny, Religious, Party

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Through the plan of prayer, God actually is inviting redeemed man into full partnership with Him; not in making the divine decisions, but in implementing those decisions in the affairs of humankind. Independently and of His own will, God makes the decisions governing the affairs of earth. The responsibility and authority for the enforcement and administration of those decisions, He has place upon the shoulders of the church.

  Paul Billheimer

  Prayer, Responsibility, Men

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• I'm finally looking older and inviting my wrinkles.

  John Stamos

  Wrinkles

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• Just another cold, misty morning inviting, "want to go again?"

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Morning, Heart, Fishing

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

  David Whyte

  Real, Want, Conversation

  "Big Questions to Ask Yourself Throughout Your Life" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Song, Laughter

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• And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

  Thomas Menino

  Birthday, Epic, Boston

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• Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Stress, Mean

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• We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is Saint Benedict's reminder to the Abbot of a monastery, inviting him to consult even the youngest members of the community: "By the Lord's inspiration, it is often a younger person who knows what is best".

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, People

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