Everything that is right or natural pleasds for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
Thomas PaineWhat nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac SingerReally I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia WoolfAlthough to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. [the famous Euler that set the foundation for mathematics]
Leonhard EulerI love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington CarverCuriosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born with
John LockeThe duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
John Stuart MillBut Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
Samuel PepysI believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd WrightI 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 someone to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy them because it makes them feel insecure.
Danielle DaxThe right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas HobbesIf any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. - Mansfield Park
Jane AustenNothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
Bernard FontenelleBy faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
OvidIs there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman MelvilleIf Everton finish in a Champions League place, they'll play in the Champions League [astonishingly piercing insight there from Bright by name but ... nature?]
Mark BrightWe gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob BronowskiFor in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls (Jubilate Agno)
Christopher SmartHe turns into a madman. His plan hasn't worked, and like a lot of people in that situation he blames everyone but himself. Deep down he knows that he's as much to blame as anyone for what has happened but Sally is the closest person to him and it is in his nature to blame her. He's a very selfish man. [About his character Greg Kelly in Coronation Street]
Stephen BillingtonNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao TzuA refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one
Friedrich NietzscheA sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Smiley BlantonMiracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C S LewisI am not a miracle worker, but I have done things of this nature before. It's 95 per cent down to the team and the players themselves to win. There is a five per cent gap that the fans can close to bring success.
Uri GellerTwo honest and good-natured anglers have never met each other by the way without crying out, 'What luck?'
Henry Jackson Van DykeAs a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, 'Let there be light,' constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
Bruce BartonExcept the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.
Sir Henry MainePity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe law cannot equalize men in spite of Nature.
Luc De VauvanarguesOne of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale CarnegieBelief in God is a very personal thing and for a lot of people, I think, their spiritual side and nature evolves and changes during the course of their lives.
Jeff GordonNature made the fields and man the cities.
Marcus Terentius VarroSuch is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas PaineScenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John KeatsNature is wont to hide herself.
HeraclitusThe lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBy reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas MertonLearn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
LucanusNature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole FranceThe satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony TrollopeMan is nature's sole mistake.
W S GilbertLimited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
Alphonse De LamartineWe talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence DayWhat an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
Brendan Francis BehanAll of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus
Judith AndersonNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandGreat art picks up where nature ends.
Marc ChagallNature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Adlai E StevensonA beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis NizerNature can satisfy all of our needs but none of our greeds.
Mahatma Gandhi
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