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Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

“Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.”

People Knows Love Government Peace Violence Violent Murderer Begets Peace Love

Author:John Lennon

“It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.”

Wish Begets

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.”

Repetition Begets

Author:Bill Drayton

“Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.”

Doe Soul Character Action Together Form Poetry Literature Emotion Principles Inspire Noble Helpful Alliances Begets Good Poetry

Book:Matthew Arnold on education

Source: Matthew Arnold on education

“The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.”

Ideas Reason Belief Business Conflict Diversity Trade Meetings Comparison Customs Superstitions Rivals Begets Crossroads Attrition

Book:The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization

Source: The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization

“This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.”

Hours Church Doctrine Preserves Justification Begets Cornerstones One Hour

Book:What Luther says: an anthology

Source: What Luther says: an anthology

“The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.”

Ends Moral Teach Virtue Duty Habit Morality Embrace Vices Representation Speculation Begets Deformity

Book:Moral Philosophy

Source: Moral Philosophy

“The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.”

Men Way Today Tomorrow Blind Killing Flesh Urges Craving Begets Howl Sinister Hares

Author:Andrei Voznesensky

“You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.”

Desire Flames Begets Concise Metallic

Book:Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks

Source: Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks

“Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.”

Matter Smart Begets Singularity

Book:Accelerando

Source: Accelerando

“When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.”

Men Years Feelings Father Understanding Maturity Begets

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.”

Common Half Violence Score Begets

Book:COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

“As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.”

Men Kind Said Birth Increase Beast Copies Begets Ephemeral Tablets

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.”

Thinking Men Differences Judgment Ill Affection Rage Heat Contradiction Remarkable Resentment Begets Ill Will

Author:Cato the Younger

“And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.”

Love Body Force Murderer Begets

Book:Selected Poetry

Source: Selected Poetry

“Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.”

Soul Reason Grief Sorrow Vices Flesh Repentance Begets Ulcers

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“Liberty begets license.”

Liberty License Begets

Author:Claudius Claudianus

“Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.”

Kind Religion Culture Expression Dramatic Gestures Primitive Symbolic Begets Superstitious

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on.”

Honesty Begets

Author:James F. Bell, III

“She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.”

World Way Mind Heart Art Seems Passion Love Is Gains Raises Noble Esteem Generous Grounded Crooked Begets Subtlety True Love Is Plainness Generous Heart

Author:Theresa Villiers

“It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.”

Duty Recovery Temper Surgeons Cheerfulness Begets Impart

Book:The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery

Source: The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery

“Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.”

Creativity Innovation Profit Fearlessness Begets

Author:Ben Chestnut

“Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.”

Ifs Love Made States Belief Force Religious Love Is Dangerous Produce Hatred Operations Regulation Introducing Begets Religious Belief Unbelief Like Love

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.”

Violence Nasty Begets

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.”

Has Beens Made War Facts Able Opinion Conditions Argument Hatred Defense Suggestions Begets Preventive War

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.”

People War Cases Produce Begets Furious Humiliated Outraged

Author:Judith Butler

“I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.”

Giving Believe Generosity Begets

Author:Josh Garrels

“A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.”

Children Understanding Promise Begets

Author:Francis of Assisi

“Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.”

Knows Love Is Philosophical Begets

Author:Virgil

“Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.”

World Christianity Pride Riches Destructive Temper Begets

Book:The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

Source: The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

“If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?”

Ifs Thinking May Love Is Begets

Author:John Wesley

“The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.”

Firsts Long Violence Blood Sight Wine Crowds Cups Thirst Begets

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.”

Opinion Conversation Mark Begets

Book:The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life

“There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.”