Quotes with ill-nature

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  • Alexander Hamilton There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Jean Genet There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Mark Twain There is a great deal of human nature in people.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Gordon There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
    George Gordon
     
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  • Edward Hoagland There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson There is always an appeal open from criticism to nature.
    Source: Works (1787)
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Keats There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Francis Bacon There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Arthur Erickson There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Marquis de Sade There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Charles Mackay There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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  • John Webster There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Wulf There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
    Bill Wulf
     
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  • James Truslow Adams There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
    James Truslow Adams
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • Thomas Mann There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Haydon There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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