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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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“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”— Blaise Pascal
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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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“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.”— Tennessee Williams
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“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”— Albert Einstein
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“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”— Vincent Van Gogh
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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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“Human nature is not of itself vicious.”— Thomas Paine
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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”— Blaise Pascal
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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”— Victor Hugo
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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”— Victor Hugo
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“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”— Francis Bacon
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“For greed all nature is too little.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”— Max Planck
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“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”— Voltaire
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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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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”— Alfred Tennyson
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“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.”— Samuel Butler
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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