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Nature Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and…
- the better angels of our nature
- In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well…
- Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
- Human-nature will not change.
- Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human…
- Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.
- All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The…
- I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
- The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet…
- Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong,…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle