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And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
As the twig is bent the tree inclines. -- Virgil
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. -- Thomas Fuller
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -- Aeschylus
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids. -- John Milton
No inclines nunca la cabeza, tenla siempre erguida. Mira al mundo directamente a la cara -- Hellen Keller
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well. -- Murray Walker
I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends. -- Willa Gibbs
God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity. -- Ignatius of Loyola
A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil -- Peter Ackroyd
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself -- Samuel Johnson
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies. -- John Dryden
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. -- Agnes Repplier
And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
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
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. -- Samuel Johnson
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. -- William Shenstone
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
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad. -- Fulton J. Sheen
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
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice. -- Marshall McLuhan
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

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