"No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature."
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"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
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"I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his"
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"Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make"
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"Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?"
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"How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!"
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"My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand."
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"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win."
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"She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years."
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"Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face."
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""One impulse from a vernal wood"
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"Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy."
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"Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee."
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"Nature will not be admired by proxy."
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"No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature."
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"From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought."
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"There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears."
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"God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."
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"Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended."
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"Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do."
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