Charles Dickens Quotes, Nature Quotes, Sight Quotes

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Nature Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Change Quotes , Nature Quotes

We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

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External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Moon Quotes

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

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Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.

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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Heart Quotes

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sunset Quotes

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Nature Quotes , Cat Quotes

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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Tags : Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Science Quotes

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Nature Quotes , Humorous Quotes

Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Nature Quotes

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Nature Quotes , Changing Environment Quotes