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  • Joseph Addison Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Napoleon Hill Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Joseph Addison Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Socrates He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Aristotle He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Human nature is above all things lazy.
    Household Papers and Stories (1864) Ch. 6
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • E. B. White I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Epictetus It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Anatole France It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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  • Joseph Addison Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Camille Paglia Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature hates calculators.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Emily Dickinson Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • William Wordsworth Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Luther Burbank Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Bennet Omalu No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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