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240 quotesWhenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
Nature
James Carswell
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
Painters and Painting
Miguel De Cervantes
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Money
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
Hope
William Ellery Channing
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
Experience
Chinese Proverb
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Thou strange piece of wild nature!
Eccentricity
Colley Cibber
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Mistakes
Marcus T. Cicero
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Studying
Marcus T. Cicero
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Time and Time Management
Marcus T. Cicero
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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
Victory
Marcus T. Cicero
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All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
Desire
Robert Collier
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
Scholars and Scholarship
Confucius
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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Tranquility
Cyril Connolly
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Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.
Creation
L. A. Coulson
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Nature
William Cowper
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Purpose
William Cowper
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Children
Madame Marie Curie
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Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
Men and Women
George William Curtis
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Nature is the art of God.
Nature
Dante Alighieri
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Abstinence
Charles Dickens
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Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
Nature
Emily Dickinson
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Human Nature
Denis Diderot
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Nature
Benjamin Disraeli
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Science and Scientists
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
Wives
John Dryden
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun