#nature

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

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An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ↗

— Edward Hall

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You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else. ↗

— Radclyffe Hall

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