#nature

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#bark #branches #coming #course #foliage

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#gift #habit #i #i am #looking

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#am #created #else #head #heard

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#led #man #nature #reason #truth

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. ↗

— Philip Sidney

#ever #heart #like #most #nature

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#experience #far #go #instruction #learned

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

#benevolent #constitute #exercise #feel #human

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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