Nature
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.
Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.
I love being outdoors. I love listening to the crickets. I want to embrace nature.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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