Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Quotes
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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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.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.
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I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.
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A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
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Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.
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The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.
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Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.
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Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
