We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Ill natures never want a tutor. [ Proverb ]
But we all are men.
In our own natures frail; and capable
Of our flesh, few are angels. [ William Shakespeare ]
Your noblest natures are most credulous. [ Chapman ]
And now from Nature up to Nature's God,
But down from Natures God look Nature through. [ Robert Montgomery ]
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more. [ Dryden ]
Ill natures, the more you ask them, the more they stick. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable. [ Hazlitt ]
Base natures,, if they find themselves suspected, will never be true. [ Proverb ]
Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is to flowers. [ De Finod ]
Cold natures have only recollections; tender natures have remembrances. [ Mme. de Krudener ]
You are attempting to reconcile things which are opposite in their natures. [ Horace ]
Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are incompatible. [ Bovee ]
Revenge, the attribute of gods! they stamped it with their great image on our natures. [ Otway ]
All men are like in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. [ Bovee ]
Our natures are like oil; compound us with anything, yet still we strive to swim upon the top. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. [ Swift ]
Rank exists in the moral world also. Commoner natures pay with what they do: nobler, with what they are. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]
Music is the fourth great material want of our natures, - first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music. [ Bovee ]
Life was spread as a banquet for pure, noble, unperverted natures, and may be such to them, ought to be such to them. [ W. R. Greg ]
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless. [ Macaulay ]
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Out of a horrible depth the height steps boldly forth; out of a hard shell virtue fights its way to the light; pain is the birth (medium) of the higher natures. [ Tiedge ]
He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. [ Scott ]
Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more conformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition. [ Addison ]
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the sombre countenance of ordinary nature; they are like music heard out of a workhouse. [ Berz ]
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. [ Coleridge ]
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]