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01c. 1844 AD

No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

02c. 1809 AD

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

03c. 1809 AD

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

04c. 1847 AD

But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.

Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) / quote

05c. 1851 AD

I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,—the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,—Nature's good And God's.

Robert Browning / quote

06c. 1851 AD

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

Robert Browning / quote

07c. 1851 AD

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

Robert Browning / quote

08c. 1855 AD

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

James Russell Lowell / quote

09c. 1855 AD

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold.

James Russell Lowell / quote

10c. 1855 AD

Nature fits all her children with something to do.

James Russell Lowell / quote

11c. 1855 AD

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

James Russell Lowell / quote

12c. 1855 AD

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

James Russell Lowell / quote

13c. 1855 AD

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet; And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end. For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied, A nature sloping to the southern side; I thank her for it, though when clouds arise Such natures double-darken gloomy skies.

James Russell Lowell / quote

14In print by 1905 AD

It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.

Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote

15c. 172 BC

The very flower of youth.

Terence / quote

16c. 75 BC

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius / quote

17In print by 1905 AD

Practice in time becomes second nature.

Anonymous · Unknown culture / quote

18c. 51 AD

It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.

Pliny The Elder / quote

19c. 51 AD

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Pliny The Elder / quote

20c. 83 AD

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

Plutarch / quote

21c. 83 AD

Custom is almost a second nature.

Plutarch / quote

22c. 83 AD

For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.

Plutarch / quote

23c. 83 AD

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.

Plutarch / quote

24c. 60 AD

Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.

Epictetus / quote