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• I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brother, Devil, Way

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

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• A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

  Thomas Fuller

  Men, Skills, Littles

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.54

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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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• Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Prayer, Believe, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.486

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• 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 it is possible to commit some social sin.

  Quentin Crisp

  Book, Reading, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 refrain from believing.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.38

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• When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

  James Hilton

  Believe, Attractive, Evidence

  James Hilton (2016). “LOST HORIZON - The Legend of Shangri-La: Adventure Classic”, p.155, e-artnow

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• Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Grace, Benefits, Pleasure

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

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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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• Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain - this is force.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Squares, Rocks

  Sunzi, Sun-Tzu, Thomas Cleary (1998). “The illustrated art of war”, Shambhala Pubns

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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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• Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Wall, Block, Philosophy

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser (1998). “The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.48, Indiana University Press

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• This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Interesting, Decline

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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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• God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

  Max Lucado

  Elephants, Ears, Conservative

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• Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Light, Practice, Principles

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• There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

  John Stuart Mill

  Strong, Average, Class

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

  Barney Frank

  People, Giving, Groups

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