"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."

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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."

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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"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, American Inventor

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"Niagara Falls is a magnificent fall of dancing, singing, glowing, and flowing liquid love that exists to reconnect broken hearts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"When I am lost in the wonder of nature, my life is vivacious."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him."

Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist

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"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost."

Meriwether Lewis, American Explorer

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"Mountain is mountain."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Spring has a secret to tell us: life is for beauty and life is for joy."

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"Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth."

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"There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men."

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"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live."

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"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."

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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."

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