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?
Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.
Literature usually begets literature.
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.
Violence should not always beget more violence.
A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.
Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.
The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.
War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.
Energy begets energy.
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.
Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.
