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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
Common Sense
W. Somerset Maugham

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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Beauty
George B. Mere

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
Love
George Meredith

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Cities and City Life
Michelangelo

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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.
Human Nature
Henry Miller

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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
Excuses
A. A. Milne

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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Science and Scientists
Maria Mitchell

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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
Nature
Molescholte

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Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
Custom
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
Dreams
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Habit is second nature.
Habit
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
Nature
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Age and Aging
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Pleasure
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Indecision
Marianne Moore

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So many signatures for such a small heart.
Bureaucracy
Mother Teresa

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Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
Flowers
Gerard De Nerval

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Power
Reinhold Niebuhr

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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Self-control
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Hope
Alfred Nobel

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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Human Nature
Thomas Paine

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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
Habit
Blaise Pascal

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Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death.
Rest
Blaise Pascal

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Influence
Blaise Pascal

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Experience
Blaise Pascal

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