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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously ... — Arthur Conan Doyle

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. — Francis Bacon

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's in my nature, maybe all of our natures, to try to engineer things. So I skew the answers to get what I think I want. — Bob Goff

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. — Edmund Burke

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. — John Muir

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things. — C.A. Dawson Scott

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. — William Wordsworth

It isn't your job to save the world. Even if you do, it'll just go and get itself into danger again, and again, and again. It's the nature of things. — G. Norman Lippert

The universe is infinite, and abundance is the default nature of things. — Stephen Richards

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely. — Lucretius

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. — Chaim Potok

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. — Henry Rollins

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature. — Hugh Jackman

It is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. — Mary Martha Sherwood

...the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things. — C.S. Lewis

Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. — Arundhati Roy

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged. — Bill Condon

Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature. — Joe Abercrombie

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. — R.H. Blyth

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things. — Aristotle.

Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort o peace? — Robin Hobb

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself. — Heraclitus

A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night ... it's still a bloody bird. — Oliver Reed

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. — Baron De Montesquieu

It's the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful. — Yoshida Kenko

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal. — Thomas Jefferson

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. — Martin Luther

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. — Mary Russell Mitford

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. — James Jeans

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature. — Alec Baldwin

The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility. — Larry Fitzgerald

God is the Creator of all things. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature. — Nik Wallenda

Two things amazes me the most, the beauty of nature and the power of my thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. — Giambattista Vico

I have seen all kinds of things that defy the laws of nature. But I've never seen a monster. Only those that are misunderstood and mistreated. — Amanda Hocking

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo Da Vinci

For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do. — James A. Michener

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person. — Andy Goldsworthy

Maybe that's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be. — Pierce Brown

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. — Ovid

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. — Marcus Aurelius

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce. — Aristotle.

Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. — Allan Lokos

Things change, people change,
change is the inevitable laws of nature exacting its toll on lives. — Nicholas Sparks

The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June. — Robert Collyer

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition. — Rajneesh

The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become. — Don DeLillo

Women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been. — Emmuska Orczy

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like. — Pythagoras

We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising. — Lynn Schooler

The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body ... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul. — Leonardo Da Vinci

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. — David Eagleman

For how little have we lost, when the two finest things of all will accompany us wherever we go, universal nature and our individual virtue. — Seneca.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. — Thomas Jefferson

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks. — Duane Michals

Irresponsibility was something which, in the very nature of things, could not co-exist with independence. — C.S. Forester

I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it. — Lawrence Timmons

The nature of God can never and nowhere be deficient in anything, while things made out of nothing can be deficient. — Augustine Of Hippo

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated. — Jo Nesbo

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you can only tinker with the natural order of things for so long before nature gets the last laugh. — Chris Dietzel

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. — Aristotle.

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things. — Helen Keller

It was great to see the owls," I said.
She smiled.
"Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful. — David Almond

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences? — Christina Baker Kline

Nature's in no hurry, then.
Why would she be? She has literally all the time in the world. — Andreas Eschbach

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. — Thomas Browne

It was the insoluble problems - the false leads and the cold cases - that reflected the true nature of things. — Michael Chabon

Man i s given by Nature, a gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he learns all things. — Manly P. Hall

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness — Confucius

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it. — Douglas Kennedy

Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to defy laws of nature. — Peter Lerangis

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion. — Aristotle.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. — Gunter Grass

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things. — Edward Young

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. — George Edward Woodberry

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us. — Jodi Picoult

It is in the nature of things to want to believe that what's familiar and comfortable will last forever. — Terry Brooks

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. — Kenneth G. Wilson

The perfect beauty of the pattern that each raindrop makes as it joins its puddle. — Jay Woodman

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels. — Charlie Chaplin

Things were always better than they are now. It's in the nature of things. — Terry Pratchett

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things. — Daniel Craig

We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things — Marisha Pessl

She wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do — Deb Caletti

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises. — Jaggi Vasudev

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life. — Julia Ward Howe

Most of the time things against nature is scarier than the scariest things of nature — Munia Khan

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature. — H. Rider Haggard

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them. — Aristotle.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature. — Chris Hondros

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in. — Jakob Dylan

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists. — Rajneesh