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swayed

«Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, / Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | Keywords: lyre, swayed, waked
«Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b»
«Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Men | Keywords: swayed
«The generality of men are naturally swayed more by fear than by reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness»
«A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.»
«The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.»
«The will of man is by his reason swayed.»
«Though leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.»