It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. |
You may be inclined to think this a contradiction, for all such promptings to crime must be base. |
I insisted on getting married from a pathetic mixture of religious and animal promptings. |
True, sometimes separating the promptings of the Spirit from the pressures of our own thoughts and desires can be a delicate task. |
There, too, the powers of which the supraliminal self has lost control continue to act in obedience to subliminal promptings. |
Another example of brutal disregard of the most common promptings of nature, is that of a refractious son who was so incorrigible that his father condemned him to death. |