977 private quotes tagged nature

“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.” — Antonio Gaudi

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“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.” — Aldous Huxley

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“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.” — Plato

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“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” — Jules Verne

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“No speech can stain what is noble by nature.” — Sophocles

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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” — John Muir

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“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” — John Muir

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“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Human nature is not of itself vicious.” — Thomas Paine

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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” — Max Planck

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“For greed all nature is too little.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” — Voltaire

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“We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” — Victor Hugo

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“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.” — Victor Hugo

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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.” — Leo Tolstoy

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