John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
Federico Fellini
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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
Ramana Maharshi
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Hans Hofmann
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Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.
Baruch Spinoza
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It's never as good as it feels, and it's never as bad as it seems.
Edward Zander
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My favorite thing to do is just sit outside on the stoop and talk with all my neighbors. I can go out with curlers in my hair, and nobody blinks twice. It's just sad when people want to take a picture!
Margo Martindale
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it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.
Mabel Osgood Wright
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Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.
John Greenleaf Whittier
