#inclination

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs. ↗

— David Sylvian

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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination. ↗

— Cole Younger

#inclination #much #my time #natural #natural inclination

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#being #different #inclination #just #kind

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination. ↗

— Terry Lander

#inspiration #writers #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#democracy #inclination #injustice #justice #makes

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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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. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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