Quotes with second-nature

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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Habit is ten times nature.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bill Richardson Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ali Smith Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • William Penn Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Plato He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Plato He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Thomas Jefferson He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aristotle Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aaron Hill Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Billy Boyd Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • George Carlin Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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