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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence. - Honore de Balzac In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions. - George Crabbe As our inclinations, so our opinions. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life. - David Hume Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") From the very first instances of perception, some things are grateful and others unwelcome to us; some things we incline to, and others we fly. - John Locke (1)
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