Natures Quotes
208 Natures quotes by 170 unique authors
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How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it…
— Craig Davidson
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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and…
— Plato
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You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it…
— Colson Whitehead
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And…
— Henry B. Eyring
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England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their…
— Colin MacInnes
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I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures
— Dennis Prager
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There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and…
— Taylor Branch
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And let no one suppose that I claim that just living can be taught for, in a word, I hold that there does not exist…
— Isocrates
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You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of…
— William Merritt Chase
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The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and…
— Story Musgrave
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
— Sophocles
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I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine.
— George Linnaeus Banks
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If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live…
— Greg Iles
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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines…
— George Eliot
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Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man,…
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way…
— Unknown Author
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For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving…
— George Eliot
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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
— Oscar Wilde
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I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but…
— Edward John Trelawny
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist…
— Jacqueline Carey
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Christ is of two natures, the human and the divine, and we are the same: we are of the human nature, but covered with the…
— Witness Lee
Who Wrote These Natures Quotes
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