Quotes with second-nature

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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
    Henrietta Temple (1837) VI, 24
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Socrates Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Will Durant Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Maya Angelou Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ''I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.''
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Anatole France Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Barry Schuler Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bjork Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Henry Fuseli Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
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  • William Cowper Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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