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Nature Quotes by George Eliot
- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
- Effective magic is transcendent nature.
- The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
- It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit…
- The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a…
- He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...
- It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
- Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
- Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
- In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
- Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,…
- And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she…
- The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again…
- Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new…
- Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by…
- No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say…
- It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the…
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