#human nature

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ↗

— Murray Kempton

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There is a great deal of human nature in man. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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