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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Xun Zi
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
Kristin Scott Thomas
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Nicolas Chamfort
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
Mark Twain
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
Steven Pinker
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
David Duchovny
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler
