Confucius Quotes, Nature Quotes, Culture Quotes

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

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The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Life Quotes , Nature Quotes

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Nature Quotes , Pleasure Quotes

The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

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

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Nature Quotes , Giving Quotes

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Nature Quotes , Tongue Quotes

But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Nature Quotes , Flower Quotes

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Autumn Quotes

Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Nature Quotes , War Quotes

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Nature Quotes , Flower Quotes

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

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

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

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

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Nature Quotes , Apples Quotes

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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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Nature Quotes , Errors Quotes

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

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

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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