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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
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Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
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No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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