#nature

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aim #evil #good #governing #most

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ↗

— William Cowper

#exterior #happiness #less #most #nature

There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#after #cars #clothes #exist #fashion

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#attempt #believe #consequences #detest #even

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#characteristics #does #every #human #human nature

Thou strange piece of wild nature! ↗

— Colley Cibber

#piece #strange #thou #wild

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#longing #minds #nature #our #planted

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bee #flowers #honey #hope #makes

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#act #borrow #borrowing #examine #him

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#bad #bad thing #before #certain #die