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240 quotesSelf-defense is Nature's eldest law.
Defense
John Dryden
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Equality
William J. Durant
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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Acceptance
Albert Einstein
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Quarrels
George Eliot
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is related to all nature.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
Patience
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Fortune
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Praise
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Pleasure
Epictetus
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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
Listening
Epictetus
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At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
Voice
Edgar Fawcett
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All nature wears one universal grin.
Nature
Henry Fielding
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Desire
Henry Fielding
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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Human Nature
Anatole France
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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Nature
Anatole France
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Glutton
Benjamin Franklin
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun