Joseph Addison Quotes About Nature
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
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Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
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We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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