Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Nature Quotes, Men Quotes

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Faithful Quotes

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Running Quotes , Nature Quotes

Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Nature Quotes

Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Nature Quotes , White Quotes

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sad Quotes , Nature Quotes

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

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Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Nature Quotes , Enthusiasm Quotes

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Kings Quotes

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Nature Quotes , Great Poetry Quotes

We shall not cease from exploration

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Nature Quotes , Exploration Quotes

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Nature Quotes , Honesty Quotes

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

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Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

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This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.

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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Nature Quotes , People Quotes

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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