A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
In general, I probably have a shy nature. So the idea of poking out with my music is probably not something I want to do.
We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
For greed all nature is too little.
I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby.
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.
There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
