977 private quotes tagged nature

“Nature is the art of God.” — Dante Alighieri

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“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.” — Donna Leon

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“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.” — Elvis Presley

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“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” — Patrick Henry

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“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.” — George Santayana

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“I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!” — Zac Efron

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“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.” — William Hazlitt

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“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.” — Bernard Meltzer

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“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.” — George MacDonald

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“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” — Moliere

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“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.” — John Milton

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“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.” — Lindsay Lohan

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“For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.” — Liam Neeson

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“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.” — Hannah Arendt

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“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” — Langston Hughes

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“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.” — James Dean

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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” — Benjamin Britten

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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.” — Joseph Addison

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