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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
— Samuel Johnson
To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)
— Pearl S. Buck
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
— Dan Brown
(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
— Bernard Malamud
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.
— Athol Fugard
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature
— Stanley Ellin
But it's my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby.
— G.K. Chesterton
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
— Andrew Marvell
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
— Zora Neale Hurston
I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out!
— Anton Szandor LaVey
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
— Milan Kundera
Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place.
— Amit Abraham
The greatest changes in a woman's nature are wrought by love; in a man's, by ambition.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
Lyanna — George R R Martin
Lyanna — George R R Martin
Out of the long list of nature's gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.
— Hugh Hammond Bennett
Love is the sweetest, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
— George R R Martin
That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important.
— David Eddings
It's our nature. We destroy. It's the constant of our kind. No matter the color of blood, man will always fall.
— Victoria Aveyard
It is easy to love a woman, it is in nature, but art to love a man, and a profound art to want to put your horse in another man's stall.
— David Gilbert
I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
— Talib Kweli
If this cursed and fallen world
holds such beauty as what I see,
Imagine the beauty of paradise
that's gladly waiting for me. — Joyce Rachelle
holds such beauty as what I see,
Imagine the beauty of paradise
that's gladly waiting for me. — Joyce Rachelle
It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.
— Tom DeLay
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
— Plato
Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.
— Mary Beth Whitehead
It's a shame that Nature made you only one man; there was material enough for a worthy man and a rogue.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.
— Richard Branson
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.
— Samuel Von Pufendorf
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
Lo, as I gaze, the statured man,
Built up from you large hand appears:
A type that nature wills to plan
But once in all a people's years. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Built up from you large hand appears:
A type that nature wills to plan
But once in all a people's years. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.
— Alan Chadwick
Man's nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.
— Billy Graham
Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.
— Zhang Xianliang
The night
Makes everything grotesque. Is it because
Night is the nature of man's interior world? — Wallace Stevens
Makes everything grotesque. Is it because
Night is the nature of man's interior world? — Wallace Stevens
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
— C.S. Lewis
As God's revelation, Jesus is at the same time the revelation of the human nature and of the destiny of man.
— Wolfhard Pannenberg
The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature's Mom.
— Wes Adamson
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
— Bill Vaughan
Let your will to avoid have no concern with what is not in man's power; direct it only to things in man's power that are contrary to nature.
— Epictetus
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
— Thomas Hobbes
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
— Charles Darwin
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
— C.S. Lewis
Man i s given by Nature, a gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he learns all things.
— Manly P. Hall
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
— Robert A. Heinlein
In the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
— Eric Hoffer
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
— Ayn Rand
People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.
— Larry Sabato
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
— Joni Mitchell
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
— Thorstein Veblen
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
— Sargent Shriver
Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.
— Anasazi Foundation
It's the nature of man to ask questions.
Belgarath — David Eddings
Belgarath — David Eddings
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
— William James
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit
or a mask. — William Hazlitt
or a mask. — William Hazlitt
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
— George Ross Kirkpatrick
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
There's something animalistic about this man. Something I want to be a part of. Something I want to be included in. He's a force of nature.
— Belle Aurora
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
— Thomas Carlyle
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
— Edmund Burke
Pre-Socratic philosophy begins ... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul."3
— William B. Irvine
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
— George Santayana
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
— Eric Hoffer
It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
— Albert Einstein
Was it in woman's nature to be content with all that a man could give her, and not forever want what was not his to give?
— Thomas Wolfe
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.
— Joe Hill
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
— Samuel Johnson
Danny's trading life was man versus man, but this felt more like man versus nature: The synthetic CDO had become a synthetic natural disaster.
— Michael Lewis
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Accident is nature's way of starting a design; design is a man's way of looking at the accidents.
— Thiruman Archunan
An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
— Ayn Rand
Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.
— William Faulkner
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
— Blaise Pascal