We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
~ George Gordon Byron ~
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
~ Francis Quarles ~
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
~ William Shakespeare ~
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN
~ William Shakespeare ~
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Positive vibes come in life when we see nature's bounty in our courtyard.
~ Rayaba Saindane ~
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
~ William Shakespeare ~
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.
~ Jane Austen ~
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
~ William Blake ~
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Nature hates calculators.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
~ Joseph Addison ~
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
~ George Santayana ~
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
~ Jane Austen ~
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How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!
~ Anonymous ~
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
~ William Shakespeare ~
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
~ Joseph Addison ~
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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Adopt the pace of nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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A man is related to all nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
A mother's embrace is nature's purest sanctuary.
~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
The conservation of nature isn't a sprint but a timeless relay; each generation passing thebaton of responsibility. It's our turn—let's do it devotedly and diligently.
~ Aloo Denish Obiero ~
One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature.
~ Zaman Ali ~
Destiny is most strange things in human nature,it changes when you have not even expecting it.
~ Seerat Nargis Dar ~
Scrubbing the mouth cannot clean the greed of tongue or the envious nature of the gum.
~ Gilbert Sordebabari ~
In order to play with the kids, I had to put aside my maturity and allow the childish nature in me to completely possess me. And once again, I was able to experience the kind of happiness I haven't felt since I became an adult, since life took away my innocence. What a beautiful way to start the new year!
~ Lil Destar ~
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