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“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”— Blaise Pascal
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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”— C. S. Lewis
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“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”— Lord Byron
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“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”— Marcus Aurelius
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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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“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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“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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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”— Mason Cooley
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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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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”— Alfred Tennyson
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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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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”— Voltaire
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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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“A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.”— Hubert H. Humphrey
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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”— Jimmy Carter
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“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!”— Edward Abbey
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“Water is the driving force of all nature.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“The mountains are calling and I must go.”— John Muir
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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”— Aristotle
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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