Quotes 4641 till 4660 of 8624.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Source: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
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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.
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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.
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Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
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Nature is material, but not materialistic; it issues in life, and breeds all sorts of warm passions and idle beauties.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.
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