"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty."

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"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

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"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."

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

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"We ran as if to meet the moon."

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Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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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..."

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"Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way."

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"People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."

"In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part."

"Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves."

"Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom."

"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."

"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty."