Nature

(414 votes)   The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

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(400 votes)   My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(374 votes)   I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(368 votes)   Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(352 votes)   We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

R. D. Laing
1927-1989, British Psychiatrist

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(348 votes)   Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Emma Goldman
1869-1940, American Anarchist

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(345 votes)   I am at two with nature.

Woody Allen
1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian

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(343 votes)   There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(336 votes)   Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist

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(333 votes)   Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Lorraine Anderson

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(332 votes)   It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Anatole France
1844-1924, French Writer

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(330 votes)   Men are equally similar in nature, few become different when they endure and triumph over the profundity of temptation.

Maynard June Panganiban

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(330 votes)   What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(307 votes)   There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(289 votes)   Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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