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«It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.»
«Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments.»
Author: Richard Mitchell
| Keywords:
at once, considered, emotional, inclination, judgments, literacy, portion, pursue, received, responses, schools, values, value judgment, worthy
«I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination»
Author: Terence
(Dramatist, Playwright)
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
disposition, inclination, of their own
«Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary»
«It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
consult, great care, inclination, ministers
«Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, 1 their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
discourse, inclination, infuse, infused, Speeches
«It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.»
«Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.»
«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 have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
cool it, counteract, dissipate, elasticity, inclination, inertia, natural state, pulley, pulleys, relaxation
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