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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat… — Henry David Thoreau
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides! — Alexandre Dumas
We considered behaving, but it's against our nature. — O.R. Melling
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our… — Arthur Eddington
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet… — Abraham Lincoln
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be… — Swami Satchidananda
If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine… — Wendell Berry
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie… — Charles Dickens
My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has… — Charlotte Bronte
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic… — Carl Sagan
Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in… — Catherynne M. Valente
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered… — Gary Chapman
It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer) — Alex Scarrow
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be… — George MacDonald
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving… — Daniel Kahneman
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire… — Albert Ellis
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably… — Charles Darwin
I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released… — Mark Twain
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of… — Horace
Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather… — Charles Spurgeon
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. — Cyril Connolly
The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response… — Barbara Jordan
The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is… — Barbara Jordan

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