Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained. Jean Paul.

Nature smiles as sweet, I ween, / To shepherds as to kings. Burns.

Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man; only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Emerson.

Nature, study, and practice must combine to ensure proficiency in any art. Arist.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom 25 which cannot help itself. Emerson.

Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor. Pr.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. Cor.

Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its secret we do not yet find. Emerson.

Nature trips us up when we strut. Emerson.

Nature understands no jesting; she is always 30 true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. Goethe.