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Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. ↗

— Truman Capote

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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going? ↗

— Jacques Chirac

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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. ↗

— Robert Browning

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