#nature

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. ↗

— William Cowper

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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful. ↗

— Pierre Curie

#deeply #harmful #here #into #knowledge

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#mimicking #nature #poet

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion. ↗

— Robert J. McCracken

#human-nature #money #money

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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I'm an advocate of human nature. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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