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Talents go by nature not by birth.
Talent
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great

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A father is a banker provided by nature.
Fathers
French Proverb

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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Modern and Modernism
Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Arts and Artists
Northrop Frye

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Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Nature
Margaret Fuller

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Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Doctors
Claudius Galen

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Speakers and Speaking
German Proverb

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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Army and Navy
Edward Gibbon

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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Talent
Andre Gide

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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
Motivation
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Nature
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Human Nature
Emma Goldman

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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Theory
Edith Hamilton

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare

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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
Nature
Alan Havhamess

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Friends and Friendship
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Evil
Benjamin Haydon

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
Age and Aging
William Hazlitt

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Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
Nature
Francis Herbert Hedge

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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Goodness
Georg Hegel

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Failure
Napoleon Hill

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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Profits
Thomas Hobbes

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Genius
Josiah Gilbert Holland

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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Flowers
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
Punishment
Horace

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun