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Quotations on Nature

"Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature"--Bhagavad Gita";

"Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to
go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.--George MacDonald (1824-1905)"

"Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
John Wilmot (1647-1680)"

"In nature things move violently to their place,
and calmly in their place.--Bacon (1561-1626)"

"The ideal should never touch the real;
When nature conquers, Art must then give way. Schiller (1759-1805)"

"Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems
an exception is really according to order. Goethe (1749-1832"

"Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
She shows us only surfaces,
but she is million fathoms deep.Emerson (1803-1882)"

"Let us permit nature to have her way;
she understands her business better than we do. Montaigne (1533-1592)"

"Whatever you are from nature, keep to it;
never desert your own line of talent.
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;
be anything else, and you will be
ten thousand times worse than nothing.--Sydney Smith (1771-1845)"

"The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art.--Longfellow (1819-1892)"

"If you don't know how to die, don't worry;
Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.--Montaigne (1533-1592)"

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.--Hazlitt (1778-1830) "

"The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.--Homer (c. B.C. 700) "

"Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother.--Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)"

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.--Spinoza (1632-1677)"

"Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.--Cowper (1731-1800)"

"Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.--Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)"

"If you live according to nature, you never will be poor;
if according to the world's caprice,
you will never be rich.--Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)"

"What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning;
Love's the cloudless summer sun,
Nature gay adorning.--Robert Burns (1759-1796)"

"And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature,
moulding men.--Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)"

"Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.--Cicero (B.C. 106-43)"

"A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little
cruel that it may be very kind.--Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)"

"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature.
And that is because, in the last analysis,
we ourselves are part of nature and
therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.--Max Planck (1858-1947)"

"The art of medicine consists of amusing
the patient while nature cures the disease.--Voltaire (1694-1778)"

"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 (1685-1750)"

"There is however, a true music of Nature -
the song of the birds,
the whisper of leaves,
the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore,
the wail of wind or sea.--Lubbock (1834-1913)"

"The finest qualities of our nature,
like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved
only by the most delicate handling.--Thoreau (1817-1862)"

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are
names of the one and selfsame God.--Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)"

"Time destroys the speculations of man,
but it confirms the judgment of nature.--Cicero (B.C. 106-43)"

"The nearer one approaches the Truth,
the happier one becomes.
For the essential
nature of Truth is positive Absolute Bliss.--Sivananda (born 1887)"

"Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.--Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)"

"Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.--Curtius-Rufus (fl. 100 A.D.)""