977 private quotes tagged nature

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.” — Charles Dickens

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“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” — William James

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“The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.” — Hannah Arendt

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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” — Ingrid Bergman

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“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.” — Joseph Addison

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“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.” — Clint Eastwood

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“To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.” — Adam Smith

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“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” — Walt Disney

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“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.” — William James

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“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” — Joseph Campbell

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“Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.” — Jenny McCarthy

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“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” — Saint Augustine

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“You can't just let nature run wild.” — Walt Disney

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“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.” — Epictetus

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“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'” — W. H. Auden

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“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.” — Danielle Dax

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“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.” — Dorothy Thompson

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“Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.” — Alan King

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“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.” — Arthur Erickson

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