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For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a… — Marguerite Yourcenar
What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but whilst it proceeds… — Sylvester Graham
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us. — Timothy Keller
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be… — Marcus Aurelius
Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good… — Mencius
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side… — Rabindranath Tagore
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature. — Alexander Hamilton
Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not… — Gore Vidal
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'. — Plutarch
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object… — Matthew Simpson
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature. — Blaise Pascal
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in… — E. Stanley Jones
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point… — Peter Abelard
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts. — Jim Leach
I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because… — Terry Tempest Williams
It's just a part of our nature to hope. — Elizabeth Edwards
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its… — James Anthony Froude
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature. — Bodhidharma
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails. — Joseph Addison
In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature. — Sigmund Freud
As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us… — Francesco Guicciardini
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods. — Thomas Aquinas
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… — John Milton
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition, — David Buss

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