Their Own Nature Quotes
17 Their Own Nature quotes by 17 unique authors
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
— Mary Astell
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Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.
— Euripides
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the…
— John Stuart Mill
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Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against…
— Thomas Aquinas
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He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.
— Laozi
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Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How…
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
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And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.
— Johann Peter Eckermann
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People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
— Bodhidharma
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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.
— Saint Augustine
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It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they…
— Albert Camus
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I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of…
— Mira Grant
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Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be,…
— Abraham Maslow
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[voiceover on the phone continued from the beginning; intercut with some live-action dialogue] The permutations were endless. They tried again going to the source, but…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Their Own Nature Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Their Own Nature Quotes as follows: