"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."
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"He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others."
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"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
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"Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole."
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"Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love."
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"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
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"Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master."
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"Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world."
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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
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"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words."
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"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
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"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
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"I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances."
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"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
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"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
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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."
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"... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water."
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"Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!"
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"Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution."
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"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled."
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