#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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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

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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Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

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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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