Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Nature Quotes, Cat Quotes

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

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All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

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on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

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The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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Nature hates calculators.

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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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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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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

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The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

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I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

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We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

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TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

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