2484 Nature Quotes for You to Enjoy

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor. William Ames

Good Nature Will Whatever Duty Our Neighbor Perfect Joined Conceive Most Known Least Us Should

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. William Cowper

God Good Nature Cause Name Effect Whose

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. William Ernest Henley

Art Nature Reality Distinction More Merit Real Than Essence

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. William Falconer

Hope Nature Fear Simplicity Practice Rural More Casual Occupations Subject Precarious Anxieties Any Which Uniformity Incessant

Man is nature's sole mistake. William Gilbert

Nature Man Mistake Sole

Till 1782, I believed in the doctrine of Calvin: that is, that the majority of mankind were objects of divine condemnation and that their punishment would be everlasting. The 'Systeme de la Nature,' read about the beginning of that year, changed my opinion and made me a Deist. William Godwin

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In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind. William Godwin

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The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands. William Godwin

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Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. William Golding

Daily Nature Job Birds Carpentry Some Write Push Part Stuff Sing Much Should Novelists Routine Level

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. William H. Seward

Nature You Property Constitution Law Recognition Must Would Would-Be Constitutional Void Because Answer Reply Nations Repugnant Then Sufficient Slaves

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance? William H. Wharton

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. William Hazlitt

Nature Respect Heart Language Else Poetry He Contempt Himself Itself Anything Anything Else Cannot Holds Which Much Who Universal Universal Language

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. William Hazlitt

Best Nature Scholar Scholars True Painter Humblest

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. William Irwin Thompson

Nature Science Control Chaos Purpose Unconscious Effect Conscious Disruption

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints. William Merritt Chase

Nature You Light Try Before Own Those Must See Shade Colors Study Match Hues Effects Tint Your Nearly

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument. William Morris Hunt

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Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them. William Morris Hunt

Needs Nature Only Puts Economical Lights She Where Them Her

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats. William Morris Hunt

Love Great Nature People Will Nothing Every Vain Enough Beneath Exalt Through He Pictures Learn His Subject Artist Which To Love Notice Interpreter Treats

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