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Nature Quotes by John Milton
- Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
- Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist,…
- Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in…
- By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps…
- In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
- Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
- Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
- And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.
- Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision…
- When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far…
- The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
- Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
- He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity;
- Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link…
- Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the…
- In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go…
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