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''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''
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'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.
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'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
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A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
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A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
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