#nature

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ↗

— Huston Smith

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Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

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The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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The imagination is man's power over nature. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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