We always compare our labor with its results. We do not devote more effort to a given task if we can accomplish it with less; nor, when confronted with two toilsome tasks, do we choose the greater. We are more inclined to diminish the ratio of effort to result, and if, in so doing, we gain a little leisure, nothing will stop us from using it, for the sake of additional benefits, in enterprises more in keeping with our tastes. Man's universal practice, indeed, is conclusive in this regard. Always and everywhere, we find that he looks upon toil as the disagreeable aspect, and on satisfaction as the compensatory aspect, of his condition. Always and everywhere, we find that, as far as he is able, he places the burden of his toil upon animals, the wind, steam, or other forces of Nature, or, alas! upon his fellow men, if he can gain mastery over them. In this last case, let me repeat, for it is too often forgotten, the labor has not been lessened; it has merely been shifted to other shoulders.
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Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.
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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?
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faces enormous difficulties, and most of its members are inclined towards respectability ... this is the fundamental fact about the Orange Order. It's going to cause unease; there is the danger of splits. This is a very difficult moment for this movement.
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All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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The lesson of value which money teaches, which the Author of the Universe has taken so much pains to teach us, we are inclined to skip altoget...
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
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To me this decaying landscape has its uses: To make me remember, who am always inclined to forget,...
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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals others by their acts.
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I ... believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
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If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an...
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
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