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  • Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.

    Blood   Deeds   Hot  
    William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.589
  • Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

    Hate   Cutting   Men  
    "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
  • 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.

    Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.221, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

    Men   Yield   Doe  
    R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.138, The Overlook Press
  • Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred.

  • The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

    Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”
  • 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.

    Art   Passion   Love Is  
  • War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

    War   Order   Ruins  
    Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.122
  • Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.

    Natural   Begets  
  • Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

    Sight   Doors   Grace  
    Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.330
  • Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  • America is not big enough to shake her fist in the face of a holy God and get away with it, and as I read this I want to explain something. I'm going to read this and then I want to explain something. As America has permitted homosexuality to establish itself as an alternate lifestyle, it is also reeling from the frightening spread of sexually transmitted disease. Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations.

  • Literature usually begets literature.

    Susan Sontag (2013). “Against Interpretation and Other Essays”, p.72, Penguin UK
  • Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

    Money   Might   Six  
    Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.360
  • Liberty begets license.

  • ... only love begets love.

  • It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

    Action   Fraud   Begets  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.431, e-artnow
  • Remorse begets reform.

    Reform   Begets   Remorse  
    William Cowper (1819). “Poems, etc”, p.331
  • And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith.

    United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.101
  • Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

  • Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

    Fear   Cowardice   Worst  
  • Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

    Lying   Believe   Men  
    Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.533, Barbour Publishing
  • It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

    Wish   Begets  
  • We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

    Hannah Nordhaus (2015). “American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier”, p.11, Harper Collins
  • Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

    Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”
  • Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

    Hate   Hatred   Soul  
    William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.51
  • But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

    Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.837, Cosimo, Inc.
  • When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

    "Ageless Living in a Culture of Youth" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2011.
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