977 private quotes tagged nature

“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.” — Anatole France

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“If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.” — Michel de Montaigne

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

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“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.” — Edmund Burke

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“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.” — Francis Bacon

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“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.” — Alexander Pope

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“Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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