#nature

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama. ↗

— Allen Tate

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The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach. ↗

— Jewel

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. ↗

— Titus Livius

#difficulties #exercise #intelligence #many #may

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#ascribed #fifty #forces #given #gods

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#brotherhood #everything #good #humanity #i

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. ↗

— Alfred Austin

#body #dirt #feed #garden #glory

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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