Nature Has Given Quotes
22 quotes by 16 authors
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has…
— Samuel Johnson
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If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.
— Claudius Claudianus
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You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.
— Claudius Claudianus
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Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in…
— Socrates
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A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even…
— James Anthony Froude
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
— Samuel Johnson
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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much,…
— Jane Austen
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Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case…
— Frederick Douglass
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Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
— Seneca the Younger
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
— Pliny the Elder
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each…
— Henrik Ibsen
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Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak
— Epictetus
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