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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

Calvin Klein

Designer · American · b. 1942

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman · Roman

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

Writer · French · 1694 – 1778

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Novelist · American · b. 1936

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

Black Elk

Leader

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Xun Zi

Philosopher · Chinese

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher · German · 1788 – 1860

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman · Roman

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Don DeLillo

Novelist · American · b. 1936

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Statesman · Roman

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

William Hazlitt

Critic · English · 1778 – 1830

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Sophocles

Poet · Greek

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Marquis de Sade

Novelist · French · 1740 – 1814

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Laurence J. Peter

Writer · Canadian · 1919 – 1990

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Alexander Pope

Poet · English · 1688 – 1744

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Novelist · American · b. 1936

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

James Weldon Johnson

Poet · American · 1871 – 1938

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Kenneth L. Pike

Sociologist · American · 1912 – 2000

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Khalil Gibran

Poet · 1883 – 1931

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman

Poet · American · 1819 – 1892

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet · American · 1803 – 1882

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

President · American · 1743 – 1826

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher · Danish · 1813 – 1855

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

Sydney Pollack

Director · American · 1934 – 2008

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Lord Byron

Poet · British · 1788 – 1824

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift

Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Epictetus

Philosopher · Greek

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Napoleon Hill

Writer · American · 1883 – 1970

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

Roy Barnes

Politician · American · b. 1948

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Lord Acton

Historian · British · 1834 – 1902

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet · American · 1807 – 1882

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

Novelist · Irish · 1713 – 1768

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Jane Austen

Writer · British · 1775 – 1817

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

George Whitefield

Clergyman · American · 1714 – 1770

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

Artist · Norwegian · 1863 – 1944

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

C. S. Lewis

Author · British · 1898 – 1963

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C. S. Lewis

Author · British · 1898 – 1963

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Ayn Rand

Writer · Russian · 1905 – 1982

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot

Author · British · 1819 – 1880

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

William Penn

Leader · English · 1644 – 1718

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

Matthew Arnold

Poet · English · 1822 – 1888

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