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“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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“If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.”
Michel de Montaigne Quotes |
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“Choose only one master - Nature.”
Rembrandt Quotes |
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“If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living”
Henri Poincare Quotes |
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“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.”
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
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“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain”
Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
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“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes |
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“Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
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“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”
Michel de Montaigne Quotes |
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“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent”
Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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“If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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“Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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“No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.”
Aristotle Quotes Source: Ethics (III, 5)
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“Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Religious Isolation (st. 4)
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“The course of Nature seems a course of Death,
And nothingness the whole substantial thing.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood)
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“Nature means Necessity.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus--Dedication
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“At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill
And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.”
James Beattie Quotes Source: The Hermit
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“Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Philaster (act III, sc. 1)
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“Rich with the spoils of nature.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. XIII)
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“There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up
empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. XV)
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“Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection
of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there
were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another.
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of
God.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Religio Medici (sec. 16)
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