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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

Ambition, Virtue, Fit

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin

Knowledge, Science, Ignorance

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
Virgil

Love, Same, Knows

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
James Madison

Confidence, Union, Religious

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney

Leadership, Trust, Confidence

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
Aeschylus

After, Act, Parent

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

Life, Rich, Energy

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
Hippocrates

Knowledge, Science, Ignorance

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.
Suze Orman

Big, Wealth, Believer

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
John Podhoretz

Politics, Good, Here

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
Laura Linney

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
Thomas Mann

Beautiful, Word, Deed

Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.
Dominic Monaghan

Work, Busy, Worry

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Henry Fielding

Parent, Dancing, Warmth

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding

Great, Envy, Minds

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
Theodore Roethke

Love, Joy, Torment

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Love, Friendship, Same

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Suzanne Fields

Humor, Time, Powerful

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
Thomas Dekker

Children, Subject

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
Algernon Sidney

Nature, Men, Government

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.
Anthony Mackie

Success, Work, Long

Work begets work.
Brion James

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.
Meshell Ndegeocello

'The Good Wife' was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that I've had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of 'work begets work' actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced.
Carrie Preston

Work, Time, Good

Solitude begets whimsies.
Mary Wortley Montagu

I think work begets work.
Adam Baldwin

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman

After, Another, Against

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