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Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears. — Juvenal

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. — Boleslaw Prus

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands. — Gustave Flaubert

The girl in your class who suggests that this year the Drama Club put on The Bald Soprano will be a thorn in people's sides all of her life. — Fran Lebowitz

But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflection on human nature? — James Madison

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Human welfare depends on healthy ecosystems. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him. — Ella R. Bloor

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies ... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes. — William Cowper

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else? — Hilary Grossman

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. — Michael Bassey Johnson

People are not hooked on YouTube, Twitter or Facebook but on each other. Tools and services come and go; what is constant is our human urge to share. — Alfred Hermida

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. — G.K. Chesterton

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence. — Alfred North Whitehead

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross. — R.C. Sproul

The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose. — J.M. Campos

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. — Edward Hall

Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason. — Christine Kinealy

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. — Philip K. Dick

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature — Oscar Wilde

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. — George Orwell

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. — Leonardo DiCaprio

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels. — Emily Dickinson

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature. — John Ralston Saul

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. — Scott Westerfeld

Tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on. — Billie Letts

When people don't know what's going on, it's human nature for them to imagine a version that's ten times worse than the truth! — Kenneth H. Blanchard

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield — W.B.Yeats

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other. — Esther Perel

It wasn't him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless. — Tomasz Chrusciel

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature. — Nancy Mitford

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'. — Bernard Madoff

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. — F.H. Bradley

Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things. — Kenneth Eade

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. — Noam Chomsky

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings. — Francis Henry Taylor

Anyone who attacks individual charity, attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart. — Joshua Teya

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. — David Hackworth

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed. — Billy Graham

Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions. — Auliq Ice

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. — Albert Einstein

What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? — Mary Shelley

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. — Phyllis Schlafly

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. — Steven Pinker

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature. — Stephen King

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception — Marcus Aurelius

There's no greater show on earth than observing human nature — Benny Bellamacina

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature. — Robert Harris

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,
Musing is solitude — William Wordsworth

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. — Joss Whedon

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. — Suzy Kassem

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. — Clarence Day Jr.

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? — Bret Easton Ellis

Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street.

My people. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. — John Chrysostom

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else. — Sue Grafton

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature. — Katherine Anne Porter

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It's human nature. — Dan Pearce

The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature's Mom. — Wes Adamson

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. — Norman Cousins

Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried. — Kurt Vonnegut

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature. — David Duchovny

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe. — Henry David Thoreau

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating. — Douglas Coupland

Human nature is what we were put on this earth to rise above. K. Hepburn in The African Queen — Jan Karon

It is the nature of human that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else. — Robin Hobb

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. — A.A. Milne

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side. — Martin Luther

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen. — Denis Leary