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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself - for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
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Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
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So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
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So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
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Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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