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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

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