"Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay."
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"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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"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character."
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"Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors."
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"Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new."
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"Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped."
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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."
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"Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry."
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"Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs."
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"The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified."
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"Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself."
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"Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them."
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"Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet."
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"Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens."
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"Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall."
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"Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness."
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"I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil."
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"Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness."
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"Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces."
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