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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Francis Picabia Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George William Curtis Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • John Dryden Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • William Shakespeare Nature must obey necessity.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Archibald Alexander Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Margaret Fuller Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • William Shakespeare Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
    The Tragedy of Coriolanus II, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johannes Kepler Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
    Johannes Kepler
    German astronomer, mathematician and physicist (1572 - 1630)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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