Nature
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
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.
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.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform', and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
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