"Inborn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... yield. But, inasmuch as all beautiful things are direct messages and revelations of himself, given us by our Father, and as Poesy is the searcher out and interpreter of all these, tracing by her inborn sympathy the invisible nerves which bind them harmoniously together, she is to be revered and cherished. The poet has a fresher memory of Eden, and of the path leading back thereto, than other men; so that we might almost deem him to have been conceived, at least, if not borne and nursed, beneath ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index • Various
... plenty of inborn common sense, which only needed development. With that and the beauty which Heaven had given her ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... not regard the conveyance of useful information as my forte. This belief was not inborn with me; it has been driven ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome
... a connection—distant, it is true; but his blood was in her veins, and his inborn pride shrank from receiving so much from strangers, while he wondered at her mother, feeling more and more convinced that what he had so long suspected was literally true. Mrs. Lennox was weak, Mrs. Lennox was ambitious, and for the sake of associating ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... and the modern or secular idea, which is spiritual and may become holy. In an imaginary conversation with Saint Augustine which Petrarch wrote to furnish a vehicle for the discussion of these matters, the poet exclaims that it is the soul—the inborn and celestial goodness—that he loves, and that he owes all to her who has preserved him from sin and urged him on to a full development of his powers. The ultimate result of all this thought and all this reflection upon the ...
— Women of the Romance Countries • John R. Effinger
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