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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

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It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

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And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

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'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!

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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

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A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

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MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

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