#human nature

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. ↗

— David Hume

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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That's human nature - the ups and downs. ↗

— Jami Gertz

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Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. ↗

— Sienna Miller

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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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