Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. – Henry Knox
In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide. – George Crabbe
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. – Henry Ward Beecher
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. – Helen Garner
In Beauty Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. – William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3.
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres. – Hans Frank
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. – Harriet Ann Jacobs
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men. – George Pierce Baker
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. – Guillaume Apollinaire
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. – Henry Ward Beecher
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It’s geometrically perfect. It’s tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard – or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. – Gretchen Rubin
What’s true will never contradict what’s true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on Psalm 19, Romans 1, and several other texts, declares that God has given us two reliable revelations: the words of Scripture and the facts of nature. Thus, it would be impossible for the facts of nature ever to contradict the words of the Bible. – Hugh Ross
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. – Helena Blavatsky
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. – Henry David Thoreau
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It’s incredibly, mind numbingly slow. – Hugh Grant
Twilight – a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not. – Howard Thurman
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. – Herbert Spencer
There was nothing in all Douglas’s powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln’s speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. – Henry Villard
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. – Hunter S. Thompson
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! – George A. Smith
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. – Hunter S. Thompson
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. – Hans Hofmann
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James
Technologies that exist between man and nature in a simple form and those that enable the interaction with other technologies are becoming significantly more complex and create their own information systems. – Hubert Burda
The Brazilians are amazing in their nature. You cannot describe it; you must feel that warmth when you’re around them to understand. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
