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Nature Quotes by Charles Dickens
- All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his…
- Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
- Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil,…
- Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is…
- If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of…
- I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in…
- It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying…
- To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened…
- Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it…
- Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter…
- All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish…
- I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and…
- Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and…
- Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect…
- Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
- The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie…
- The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding…
- Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
- It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and…
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