#natures

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. ↗

— Felix Adler

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ↗

— Aristotle

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

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We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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