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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
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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”— Alfred Tennyson
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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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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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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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“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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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”— Leo Tolstoy
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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”— Blaise Pascal
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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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“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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“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.”— Aristotle
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“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”— Anatole France
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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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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”— Mason Cooley
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“Water is the driving force of all nature.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”— Aristotle
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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”— Victor Hugo
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“Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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“We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”— Voltaire
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“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”— Napoleon Hill