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title: "20 Moral Nature Quotes by 20 authors"
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> [With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/with-a-higher-moral-nature-will-come-a-restriction-on-the/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's… Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-missing-sewell/a-boy-s-mind-is-not-so-easily-sullied-as-a-girl-s-undesirable/)

[Elizabeth Missing Sewell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-missing-sewell/)

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> [The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thorstein-veblen/the-addiction-to-sports-therefore-in-a-peculiar-degree-marks-an/)

[Thorstein Veblen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thorstein-veblen/)

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> [Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/love-is-precisely-to-the-moral-nature-what-the-sun-is-to-the-earth/)

[Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/)

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> [I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-s-kushner/i-believe-that-god-is-totally-moral-but-nature-one-of-god-s-creatures/)

[Harold S. Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-s-kushner/)

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> [Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/man-s-moral-nature-is-a-riddle-which-only-eternity-can-solve/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/the-way-to-avoid-evil-is-not-by-maiming-our-passions-but-by/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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> [There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/african-spir/there-is-a-radical-dualism-between-the-empirical-nature-of-man-and/)

[African Spir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/african-spir/)

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> [Man reacts upon and toward the external universe in three ways, namely, by his active nature ; by his intellectual nature ;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-maurice-bucke/man-reacts-upon-and-toward-the-external-universe-in-three-ways-namely/)

[Richard Maurice Bucke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-maurice-bucke/)

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> [True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-frederick-saunders/true-beauty-is-in-the-mind-and-the-expression-of-the-features-depends/)

[Arthur Frederick Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-frederick-saunders/)

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> [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [“5. There is no Mortal who is Purely Moral. By nature man should be either good or bad; or he should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaiten-nukariya/5-there-is-no-mortal-who-is-purely-moral-by-nature-man-should-be/)

[Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaiten-nukariya/)

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> [The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-henry-lewes/the-moral-nature-of-man-is-more-sacred-in-my-eyes-than-his/)

[George Henry Lewes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-henry-lewes/)

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> [The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mccullough/the-evil-of-technology-was-not-technology-itself-lindbergh-came-to/)

[David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mccullough/)

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> [As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-heindel/as-exercise-is-necessary-to-the-development-of-physical-muscle-so/)

[Max Heindel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-heindel/)

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> [A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-bagehot/a-highly-developed-moral-nature-joined-to-an-undeveloped-intellectual/)

[Walter Bagehot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-bagehot/)

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> [The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-arthur-ward/the-regeneration-of-a-sinner-is-an-evidence-of-power-in-the-highest/)

[William Arthur Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-arthur-ward/)

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> [“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/a-lovely-pure-noble-and-most-moral-nature-without-the-strength-of/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

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> [“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/as-for-myself-i-can-only-exhort-you-to-look-on-friendship-as-the-most/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [“ Father, we are uniquely capable of morality. We must be moral, because we can be moral. He stood very still as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-e-morgan/father-we-are-uniquely-capable-of-morality-we-must-be-moral-because/)

[C.E. Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-e-morgan/)

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                        "text": "“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other being equally suited to the moral nature of man, or so applicable to every state and circumstance, whether of prosperity or adversity, in which he can possibly be placed. But at the same time I lay it down as a fundamental axiom that \"true Friendship can only subsist between those who are animated by the strictest principles of honour and virtue.\" When I say this, I would not be thought to adopt the sentiments of those speculative moralists who pretend that no man can justly be deemed virtuous who is not arrived at that state of absolute perfection which constitutes, according to their ideas, the character of genuine wisdom. This opinion may appear true, perhaps, in theory, but is altogether inapplicable to any useful purpose of society, as it supposes a degree of virtue to which no mortal was ever capable of rising.”",
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