Mencius
Philosopher
"Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight."
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Bent
54 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven"
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them."
Andre Gide
Novelist
"It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine."
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"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
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"Noblest minds are easiest bent."
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"A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them."
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"Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent."
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"I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me."
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"Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went."
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"No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent."
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"Russia is bent on world domination."
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"Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent"
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