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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. ↗

— Anne Bronte

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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. ↗

— Emily Bronte

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Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. ↗

— Luther Burbank

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If in this life only we have hope....." By God, that was true, too. This quickening divine power that he had experienced could not be confined to this world, for cruel, sordid, ugly, devilish can be this world, and by the nature of things that power could have neither source nor ending in it; only flow through it, around it, over it, under it, gathering up the gold into its eternal shining and burning the dross in its fire. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

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Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ... ↗

— John Coldstream

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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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