"Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds."

Nature, Rights, Humannature, Liberal

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"Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds."

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"Night falls. Or has fallen. 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, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Nature, Night, Darkness, Sunset, Mystery

"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Nature, Art, Imitation

"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

Nature, Effort, Living, Nothing

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

Robert Frost, American Poet

Nature, Space

"Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet song. She has messages to say, knowledge to relay, inspiration to convey... there is much for you to learn. Your journey has just begun."

Melody Lee, American Poet

Nature, Learning, Journey, Inspirational

"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

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"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union."

Strength

"In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people."

Power

"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."

Experience

"Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing."

Commitment

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."

People

"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."

Nation

"The poor despise labor when performed by slaves."

Labor

"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it."

World

"Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community."

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"I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city."

Frustration