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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 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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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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''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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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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