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The word “inspire” is employed in literature as a dynamic catalyst for a wide spectrum of emotions and actions. It can denote the stirring of courageous determination in the face of conflict, as seen when it “inspires bravery” in a martial setting [1] or rouses a noble fire in the heart during epic quests [2]. At times, it evokes tender sentiments or even melancholic remorse, moving characters to tears or deep introspection [3][4]. In more political or philosophical contexts, the term is used to suggest both the positive formation of ideals and the potential for misdirection—fostering false opinions or genuine moral reform, for instance [5][6]. Moreover, “inspire” captures the power of art and nature to awaken creativity and even a comic transformation of fear [7][8]. Overall, the word serves as a bridge between the external triggers and internal human responses to magnificence, terror, hope, and humor.
  1. they inspire bravery; nay, by such chanting itself they divine the success of the approaching fight.
    — from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus
  2. Let glorious acts more glorious acts inspire, And catch from breast to breast the noble fire!
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  3. Then, turned once more to them, I to inquire Began: ‘Francesca, these thine agonies Me with compassion unto tears inspire.
    — from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
  4. What could I think of the sentiments with which she endeavored to inspire her daughter?
    — from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. The first success would be apt to inspire false opinions, which it might require a long course of subsequent experience to correct.
    — from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
  6. and this fact should inspire us with caution where they are concerned, and not with belief!
    — from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  7. His grotesque appearance, at first calculated to inspire terror, by its very exaggeration produced, when once familiar, a wholly comic effect.
    — from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
  8. If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire?
    — from Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse

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