Quotes with ill-nature

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  • Jeremy Collier Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Adolf Loos Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Blaise Pascal Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Camille Paglia Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive.
    The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 65
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Brit Morin Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Bibhu Mohapatra Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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  • Molière Books and marriage go ill together.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Agnes Smedley But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Harriet Martineau But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • John Stuart Mill But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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