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~ I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. ~

John D. Rockefeller

~ The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ~

Marcus Aurelius

~ The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding ~

Joseph Addison

~ Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity. ~

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

~ If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling. ~

Dr. R. W. Shepherd

~ A father is a banker provided by nature. ~

Proverb

~ Resistance to oppression is second nature. ~

Seneca

~ Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. ~

James Q. Wilson

~ In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. ~

Charles de Montesquieu

~ All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things ~

Victor Cousin

~ The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth. ~

Alexander Pope

~ The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer. ~

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

~ Our false self is the last remnant of the animal nature within our psyche: the last problem humans are to overcome in order to be fully human. ~

Steve Baxter

~ It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that we regret. ~

John Gray

~ The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. ~

Pierre Charron

~ Nothing is evil which is according to nature. ~

Marcus Aurelius Antonius

~ Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating. ~

John Ruskin

~ The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. ~

Loudon Wainwright

~ When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ~

John Muir

~ It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. ~

Washington Irving

~ A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. ~

Herbert Spencer

~ Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. ~

Francis Bacon

~ But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences ~

John Stuart Mill

~ Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast. ~

William Shakespeare

~ A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ~

Alexander Pope

~ Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. ~

Seneca

~ For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ~

Richard P. Feynman

~ There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ~

Alfred Austin

~ Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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