For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
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Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
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To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“We think we want answers. But what we really want are the right answers. Human nature. We ask questions that we hope… — C.J. Tudor Copy Share Image
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The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
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Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
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Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
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Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
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“Nobody can be strong all of the time. That’s why it’s in our human nature to seek another soul out there. Someone… — K. Webster Copy Share Image
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
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![“As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my mother and me, and the surf we were watching from the middle ledge of rocks on Monhegan Island [in Maine] after the storm. ("Don't be annoyed," my mother said. "It is human nature…” quote by Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/820/marianne-moore-3315_grave_as-for-a-grave-it-has-a-significance-apa_3194459.png)
![“The course of human history has always moved in the direction of greater freedom. And there’s a reason for that—because it’s in our nature to push for it,” Ryan told me. “If we were just plastic like [some] people think, this wouldn’t be happening. But somebody stands in front of a tank in China…” quote by Daniel H. Pink](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/714/daniel-h-pink-1532_autonomy_the-course-of-human-history-has-always-m_2942643.png)
![“Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea.” quote by Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/971/pema-ch-dr-n-327_awake_hold-the-sadness-and-pain-of-samsara-suf_1419557.jpg)
