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• If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties

  Brigham Young

  Children, Son, Giving

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.51

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• The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

  William Osler

  Sex, Passion, Men

  'Science and Immortality' (1904) ch. 2

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• ... I believe the Father came down from heaven, as the apostles said he did, and begat the Saviour of the world; for he is the ONLY-begotten of the Father, which could not be if the Father did not actually beget him in person.... I believe the Father came down in His tabernacle and begat Jesus Christ.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Father, Believe

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.238

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• It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.

  Robertson Davies

  Attitude, Fall, Mean

  "Elements of Style". Essay by Robertson Davies, 1959.

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• Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

  James Russell Lowell

  Enthusiasm, Abiding, Generations

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

  John Wesley

  Pride, World, Riches

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “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”, p.441

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• Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

  Horace Mann

  Emulation, Students, Praise

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• The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view, and places the Christian devil above him. It is he, according to the absurd story in Genesis, that outwits the Creator in the Garden Eden, and steals from Him His favorite creature, man, and at last obliges Him to beget a son, and put that son to death, to get man back again; and this the priests of the Christian religion call redemption.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Son, Men

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.598, e-artnow

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• Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Humility, Love Is, Abundance

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• It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorance, Pride, Thinking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.190

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• That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Profound, Mind, Observation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.184

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• Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Heaven, Wish

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.29

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• ... only love begets love.

  Anais Nin

  Love Is, Only Love

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• Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.

  Andre Suares

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by no means a second.

  Guru Nanak

  Mean, Son, Night

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• An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

  Samuel Richardson

  Temptation, Littles, Sanctify

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• Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

  Abraham Cowley

  Hate, War, Gold

  Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44

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• The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

  W. H. Auden

  Sex, Heart, Men

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• When it comes to improv, Specifics beget specifics.

  Craig Cackowski

  Specifics

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• Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Enthusiasm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Hyperion. Kavanagh”, p.237

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• In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Real, Wish, Divorced

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Body, Hysterical, Ennui

  Letter to Martha Jefferson, 28 March (1787)

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• Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.

  Richard Wilbur

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.434, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I’m a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you’ve got nothing to offer.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Simple, Giving, Worry

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• Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

  David Limbaugh

  Peace, War, Names

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