#natures

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#equality #exercise #give #great #great souls

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. ↗

— Andre Gide

#gifted #most #natures #perhaps #trembling

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#agreeable #agreed #although #brothers #children

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#events #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #force #heroic

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#changed #curriculum #natures

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#else #like #lot #mix #natures

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#decent #develop #environment #force #inarticulate

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#carry #certain #characters #faces #may

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#back #brought #conventionality #elements #fabric

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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