977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.” — Lord Byron

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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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“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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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.” — Niels Bohr

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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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“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.” — Anatole France

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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.” — Abraham Lincoln

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

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“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” — Mason Cooley

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