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• For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. (Jonathan Swift) [rest/search/nature/mankind]
• I am at two with nature. (Woody Allen) [nature]
• 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) [nature]
• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. (Charles Dickens) [nature/time/morning/night]
• As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view. (John Galsworthy) [human/nature]
• Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. (Daniel Defoe) [nature/blood/men]
• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher) [artist/nature]
• What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders? (John Updike) [more/nature/sex]
• Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [/nature/nature]
• That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [nature/thing/power]
• A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!. (Henry Fielding) [face/letter/nature/nature]
• Look abroad through Nature s range, Nature s mighty law is change. (Robert Burns) [look/nature/nature/right]
• All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. (William Shakespeare) [nature]
• For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. (William Shakespeare) [nature/teach/order]
• Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. (John Milton) [nature]
• Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. (William Wordsworth) [nature]
• Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. (William Wordsworth) [suffering/nature]
• Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher. (William Wordsworth) [light/nature]
• Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. (Joseph Addison) [weakness/human/nature]
• There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. (Joseph Addison) [opinion/more/nature/instinct]
• Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. (Joseph Addison) [nature/more/agreeable/conversation]
• As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. ( Akhenaton) [face/nature/cities/rage]
• I am at two with nature. (Woody Allen) [nature]
• Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats. (Woody Allen) [nature/exception]
• Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces. (Hannah Arendt) [love/nature/rarity/human]
• It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. (Hannah Arendt) [nature/human//mankind]
• It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. ( Aristotle) [mind/rest/nature/truth]
• Man is by nature a political animal. ( Aristotle) [nature]
• All men by nature desire to know. ( Aristotle) [men/nature/desire]
• Nature does nothing uselessly. ( Aristotle) [nature]
• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ( Aristotle) [nature/nature/nature/product]

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