“Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.”
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“There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.”
“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.”
“Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.”
“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.”
“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.”
“No speech can stain what is noble by nature.”
“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”
“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.”
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”