#natures

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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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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'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.


Antonia Fraser


#good #good and evil #i #interested #moral

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.


Rollo May


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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


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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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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


#done #enter #envy #greatest #harm

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.


Andre Gide


#gifted #most #natures #perhaps #trembling

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.


Nicolas Chamfort


#great ones #money #natures #ones #only

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


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