“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
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“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”
“A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.”
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”
“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.”
“The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.”
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”
“Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.”
“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”
“Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”
“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.”
“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”
“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”
“The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”
“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
“I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.”
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
“Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.”
“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”