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The nature of things is dharma. -- Mahavira
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. -- Aristotle
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. -- Thomas Browne
One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature. -- Nik Wallenda
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. -- William Wordsworth
People want to sensationalize things. That's just the nature of the business. -- Seal
One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature. -- Chris Hondros
I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own. -- Debby Ryan
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. -- Ovid
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. -- Chaim Potok
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. -- Frances Wright
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. -- John Connolly
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature. -- Hugh Jackman
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always. -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged. -- Bill Condon
I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily. -- Martha Stewart
Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under. -- Tom Shadyac
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature. -- Franz Marc
Nature did all things well -- Michelangelo
Human nature is above all things lazy. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Things always work according to their nature. -- C. S. Lewis
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. -- Blaise Pascal
Change is the nature of all objective things. -- Swami Vivekananda
Nature is none other than God in all things. -- Giordano Bruno
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason. -- Livy
But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. -- Rene Descartes
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I study nature so as not to do foolish things. -- Mary Ruefle
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. -- Edmund Burke
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself. -- Heraclitus
In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste. -- John Steinbeck
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! -- Paul Klee
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them! -- Pablo Picasso
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature. -- Zhuangzi
One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things. -- Gore Vidal
One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature. -- Alec Baldwin
All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure. -- Hans Arp
As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature. -- Vince Staples
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. -- Francis Bacon
Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there. -- Dov Davidoff
We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them. -- C. S. Lewis
Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things. -- Jack Kornfield
When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men. -- Amit Kalantri
I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult. -- Ian MacKaye
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. -- William Cowper
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. -- Oscar Wilde
The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach. -- Jewel
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature is doing wonderful things for you; what are you doing for the nature? -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, it seems, has a way of returning things to how they should be. -- Fennel Hudson
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it. -- Sophocles
Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger. -- Megan Hart
Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains. -- Hannibal
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life." -- Henry Beston
He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act. -- Laozi
A lot of things in nature answers to increase which is a law of nature -- Sunday Adelaja
Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it. -- Peter S. Beagle
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. -- Jean Renoir
it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. -- Mary Martha Sherwood
its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable -- Suzanne Collins
Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things. -- Surya Das
A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present. -- Leonardo da Vinci
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. -- Leon Battista Alberti
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. -- Baron de Montesquieu
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way. -- Nouriel Roubini
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit -- Epictetus
Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration. -- Marshall McLuhan
By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way. -- Frank Grillo
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things. -- Edward Young
There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things. -- Jodi Sky Rogers
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. -- Richard Dawkins
That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things. -- Frithjof Schuon
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . . -- Arthur Conan Doyle
There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again. -- James Bobin
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. -- Baron de Montesquieu
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. -- Wallace Stevens
Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. -- Allan Lokos
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. -- Francis Bacon
Dandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them. -- June Stoyer
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. -- David Hackworth
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added. -- Lancelot Andrewes
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. -- John Muir
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. -- George Eliot
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. -- Henry Ward Beecher
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness -- Confucius
If we observe the nature, we well learn too many things which human kind may never teach us. -- Jan Jansen
I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature. -- Michael Phelps
Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy. -- Stella Gibbons
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature. -- Virginia C. Andrews
I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious. -- Diablo Cody
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. -- Mark Twain
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. -- Henry Rollins
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. -- Ambrose Bierce
From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. -- Thomas Jefferson
What brought us together was a love of nature, or, more specifically, of catching things and unintentionally killing them. -- David Sedaris
We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution. -- Bill Vaughan
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal. -- Marcus Aurelius
Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like. -- Pythagoras
Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few. -- Galileo Galilei
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. -- Francis Bacon
Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you. -- John French Sloan
We must be careful that we don't resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature. -- Paul V. Johnson
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united. -- Pope Pius XII
I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks. -- Duane Michals
What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things. -- Edgar Degas
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -- Lucretius
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce. -- Aristotle
I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not. -- Gordon Willis
There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes. -- Marguerite Moreau

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