"The state of slavery is in its own nature bad."

Nature, Slavery, State

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Nature, Growth, Observation, Beauty

"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Nature, Twilight, Observation, Wonder, Reflection

"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

Nature, Today, Power, Wisdom

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

Stephen King, American Author

Nature, Life, Truth, Death, Wisdom

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Nature, Freedom, Poetry, Joy

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Nature, Night, Dawn, Darkness

"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."

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"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."

Power

"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"

Philosophy

"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."

War

"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."

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"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."

Success

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."

"Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws."

"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."

"Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."

"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."

"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"

"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."

"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."

"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."