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"The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances."
"There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise."
"That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet."
"The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom."
"There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God."
"When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it."
"An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling."
"Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills."
"When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us."
"Not in opinion but in nature is law founded."
"Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite."
"Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured."
"The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind."
"Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]"
"What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law."
"Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy."
"I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn."
"Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them."
"In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons."
"The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced."
