Natures Quotes

208 quotes by 175 authors

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to… — Aristotle
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. — Philip James Bailey
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of… — Margaret Cavendish
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change… — Charles W. Chesnutt
Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly,… — George Stillman Hillard
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. — Nicolas Chamfort
You lack the season of all natures, sleep. — William Shakespeare
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we… — Annie Dillard
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. — Walter Lippmann
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our… — Thomas Browne
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do… — William Shakespeare
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and… — Gerald Brenan
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so… — William Gurnall
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many… — Ralph Washington Sockman
What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. — William Carlos Williams
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see… — Charles Spurgeon
Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception.… — James E. Faust

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