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It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.


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MARTIN LUTHER A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature
MUNIA KHAN I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly n...
BOB DYLAN I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly ...
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GEORG HENRIK VON WRIGHT A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
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OSCAR WILDE A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natur...
SUZY KASSEM According to his divine nature Christ is “one in essence” (homoousios) with God the Father; acco...
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MARCUS AURELIUS I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the tr...
BOB DYLAN We all need patience and do things according to the rules.
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JOSH YOUNG I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
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FENNEL HUDSON In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a perso...
FRANK WILCZEK I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.
ALBERT CAMUS Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more fami...
JOHN BURROUGHS Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between na...
WERNER HEISENBERG If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature...
JOHN BURROUGHS Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
LIVY In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. AMMONS Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises fro...
VITRUVIUS The crowd doesn't matter. We were in Happy Valley (in a season-opening 23-13 road loss to Penn State...
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HENRI POINCARE If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, l...
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JOSEPH EDWARD MURPHY The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought l...
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we ac...
BRUCE LIPTON It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
SVETLANA ALLILUYEVA That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also ch...
HUGH JACKMAN Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...
ALBERT CAMUS It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
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TAMAE WATANABE One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it.
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DEAN JONES If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I began to understand how we are built; we're built to be natural-born liars. Nature has fashioned u...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH I began to understand how we are built; we're built to be natural-born liars, ... Nature has fashion...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil,...
HENRY FIELDING For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took ever...
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MARTIN R. LEMIEUX People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on wh...
AKIRA KUROSAWA The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the r...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reaso...
EVAN DAVIS Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you t...
SUZY KASSEM There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
JOHN BURROUGHS Animals add beauty to nature but,we humans treat them as if we are animals by nature.
SRISHTI JAIN The laws of nature are simply such that in a molecular cloud there are just a few big clumps and qui...
GUIDO DE MARCHI Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
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KELLY JONES The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you becom...
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Nature is amazing wonder.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more
ALEXANDER POPE For, though every man has sin in him seminally, yet there are some sins which by nature he is more i...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature ma...
GEORGE CHAPMAN It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, es...
WILLIAM PETTY Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your hous...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute ar...
ALEX CAMPBELL All are but parts of one stupendous whole, whose body Nature is, and God the soul
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ALAN HARGRAVE The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejud...
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RICHARD DAWKINS Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a...
THOMAS FREY Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are consci...
IMMANUEL KANT There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never ...
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FABIOLA GIANOTTI In nature everything is exquisite, so by nature so are we! So dive back in your nature!
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GREG GRAFFIN Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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IRVING PENN Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this wee...
KAL PENN To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
KAL PENN Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense a...
KAL PENN I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional polit...
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