| Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. -- Robert South |
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South, RobertEra:
1634 |
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| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle |
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AristotleEra:
-384 |
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| I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. -- Isaac Newton |
| Author:
Newton, IsaacEra:
1642 |
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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 |
| Author:
Milton, JohnEra:
1608 |
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| Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. -- John Keats |
| Author:
Keats, JohnEra:
1795 |
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| nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. -- Baltasar Gracian |
| Author:
Gracian, BaltasarEra:
1601 |
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| nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image. -- Blaise Pascal |
| Author:
Pascal, BlaiseEra:
1623 |
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| The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. -- I Ching |
| Author:
Ching, IEra:
-1150 |
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| The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author:
Aurelius, MarcusEra:
121 |
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| 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. -- Leonardo Da Vinci |
| Author:
Da Vinci, LeonardoEra:
1452 |
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| To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down. -- John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Author:
Whittier, John GreenleafEra:
1807 |
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| The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters. -- Ogden Nash |
| Author:
Nash, OgdenEra:
1902 |
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| Men are great or small in stature as it pleases God. But their nature is great or small as it pleases themselves. Men are not born, some with great souls and some with little souls. One by taking thought cannot add to his stature, but he can enlarge his soul. By an act of the will he can make himself a moral giant, or dwarf himself to a pygmy. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. -- Thomas H. Huxley |
| Author:
Huxley, Thomas H.Era:
1825 |
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| nature abhors annihilation. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author:
Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. -- Charles Darwin |
| Author:
Darwin, CharlesEra:
1809 |
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| Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. -- Johann Von Schiller |
| Author:
Schiller, Johann VonEra:
1759 |
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| And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in nature. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| Sadness is not an evil. Complain not; what seem to be sufferings and obstacles are often in reality the mysterious efforts of nature to help you in your work if you can manage them properly. Look upon all circumstances with the gratitude of a pupil. All complaint is a rebellion against the law of progress. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author:
Blavatsky, H. P.Era:
1831 |
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| If you don't know how to die, don't worry; nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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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 |
| Author:
Addison, JosephEra:
1672 |
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| Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| nature, red in tooth and claw. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| The counterfeit and counterpart Of nature reproduced in art. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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| That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. -- Miguel De Cervantes |
| Author:
De Cervantes, MiguelEra:
1547 |
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| In nature all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything. -- Shaftesbury III |
| Author:
Shaftesbury IIIEra:
1671 |
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| Everything in excess is opposed to nature. -- Hippocrates |
| Author:
HippocratesEra:
-460 |
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| The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -- Plato |
| Author:
PlatoEra:
-427 |
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| As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. -- Joseph Addison |
| Author:
Addison, JosephEra:
1672 |
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| It is an inexorable Law of nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. -- I Ching |
| Author:
Ching, IEra:
-1150 |
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| Call it nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author:
Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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