#nature

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me. ↗

— Billy Bragg

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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

#conjectures #designed #discoveries #existence #faint

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws. ↗

— Donald Fagen

#flaws #i #look #nature #often

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#comic #comic strips #end #end result #established

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ↗

— Andre Breton

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The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. ↗

— William Falconer

#anxieties #any #casual #employments #fear

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#art #come #emotion #into #measure

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#colour #coloured #distinct #drawing #everything

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#because #civilization #confidence #engagement #every

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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