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Letter "I" » incitements
«While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.»
Author: Dorothea Dix
(Philanthropist)
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awaken, diminish, extinguish, incitement, incitements, prisoners, stimulant, stimulants, strengthen, terrors
«The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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incitement, incitements, sinning
«Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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incitement, incitements
«There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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convenience, forsake, incitement, incitements, palliate, palliated, palliating, Truth The
«Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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frequent, incitement, incitements, requisite, styled
«Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.»
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