Best Natural Proverbs
5441 Natural quotes by 3310 unique authors
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such…
— Colin Powell
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I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and…
— Laurens van der Post
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain…
— Henri Poincare
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You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last.…
— James Garner
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A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
— Maria Montessori
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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
— Aristotle
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human…
— Anatole France
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
— Oscar Wilde
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All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
— George Santayana
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
— Edmund Burke
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Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them…
— William Hazlitt
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as…
— Martin Luther
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The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability…
— Tennessee Williams
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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
— Henri Bergson
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
— George Santayana
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Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling…
— Emma Goldman
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I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease…
— Louise Hay
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your…
— Ken Robinson
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