Quotes with natures

  • Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
  • The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
  • Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
  • Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
  • Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
  • Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
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  • Blaise Pascal All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Walter Lippmann Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Peggy Noonan Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • I Ching Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • William Shakespeare Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
    Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
    But with a little act upon the blood.
    Burn like the mines of Sulphur.
    Othello 3, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Allen Tate Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Ben Johnson Force works on servile natures, not the free.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Ralph W. Sockman Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
    Ralph W. Sockman
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Antonia Fraser I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Rollo May Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Francis Beaumont Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • George Eliot Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Philip James Bailey Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Aristotle The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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