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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.244

Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.

Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Aeschylus, Sophocles, EurĂ­pides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Hyperion. Kavanagh”, p.237

Change begets change.

Charles Dickens (2016). “Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.301, Xist Publishing

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, Vol. I”, p.310, Cosimo, Inc.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

Remorse begets reform.

William Cowper (1819). “Poems, etc”, p.331

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.294

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.431, e-artnow

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

1885 Letter to Robert Bridges, 1 Sep. Collected in C C Abbott (ed) The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges (1935).

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

"Bill Drayton’s Five Trends for Social Entrepreneurs" by Eli Malinsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

"Ageless Living in a Culture of Youth" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2011.

In life, success begets success.

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Literature usually begets literature.

Susan Sontag (2013). “Against Interpretation and Other Essays”, p.72, Penguin UK