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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. -- Thomas Carlyle
They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart. -- Tomas Borge
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. -- Philip Sidney
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. -- Robert Fulghum
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. -- Alfred Austin
When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart. -- Raoul Dufy
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? -- Gregory Bateson
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. -- Thomas Day
I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature. -- Jimmy Swaggart
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood. -- Walter Kaufmann
If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable. -- Yehuda Berg
I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature. -- Richard Preston
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's. -- Desiderius Erasmus
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. -- Virchand Gandhi
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. -- Abraham Lincoln
Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle. -- Eduardo Paes
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. -- Abraham Lincoln
I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. -- Alan Ball
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. -- Saint Basil
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us. -- Frederick William Faber
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. -- Standing Bear
Nature's heart beats strong amid the hills. -- Richard Monckton Milnes
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. -- William Wordsworth
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man? -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails. -- Joseph Addison
But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills. -- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. -- Lin Yutang
Herbalism is a religion of nature, representing a balance of head and heart. -- Michael Tierra
My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. -- John Henry Newman
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vibration is at the heart of nature. Music allows us to feel it. -- Glenn Kurtz
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart. -- Jojo Moyes
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature. -- Ivan Turgenev
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. -- Luther Standing Bear
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases. -- Edward Charles Titchmarsh
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied. -- Robert Southey
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality. -- Juvenal
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness -- Confucius
Only the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature. -- Anuradha Bhattacharyya
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart. -- Goodale Sisters
The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature. -- Ambrose Bierce
Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature. -- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life. -- Patanjali
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven. -- Mencius
The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ. -- Richard Wurmbrand
Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart. -- Dharma Mittra
Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates. -- Alex Gaskarth
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. -- A. B. Simpson
So even though all the senses bring in sensations from nature, the ocean-like heart of the sage knows no disturbance, knows no fear -- Swami Vivekananda
If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world. -- Eddie Izzard
We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man. -- Laura Kasischke
Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing. -- Isaac Watts
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge. -- Deepak Chopra
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator. -- Joshua Reynolds
Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind. -- Henry Walter Bates
I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career. -- Sarah Carter
Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature. -- Morihei Ueshiba
I am lover of words... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul. -- Jennifer Hillman
Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature. -- Debasish Mridha
A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart -- Sadegh M. Angha
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by. -- Aaron Hill
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. -- Charles Dickens
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. -- John Muir
The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart. -- Swami Vivekananda
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy. -- William Wordsworth
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart. -- Agnes Repplier
THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night. -- William Carlos Williams
God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other. -- George Sand
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. -- John Bunyan
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society. -- Swami Vivekananda
Mother Earth taught me that my angertoward nature was unfounded.And she therefore invited me to open my heart to thispossibility: so too may be my anger toward man. -- Anasizi Foundation Good Buffalo Eagle
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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