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Nature Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in…
- A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
- Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common…
- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
- To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
- There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
- The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt…
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
- A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
- Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
- If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
- Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
- There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely…
- Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot…
- I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me:…
- A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
- When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
- Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with…
- There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its…
- The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally…
- Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not…
- Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
- Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
- We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
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- 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