Nature & World Sayings
52 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 52 authors
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I have seen many men with long beards and little brains.
Patience means restraining one’s inclinations.
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man.
The will is by its nature so free that it can never be constrained.
But a man cannot be said to be in a state of nature, when he is in a city or commonwealth.
Nature has no end in view, and all final causes are nothing but human figments.
Nature makes no leaps.
The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
I am a child of nature, who has been taught to think; and I will not resign my birthright for a mess of pottage.
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
The sun never sets on my anger.
Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.
The sea is a great lord, and it does not suffer the existence of any other lords.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, but for this appearance, would have remained hidden from us.
What if the sun be dark’ned in his sphere, And with no chearful ray salute the spring?
The more years increase, the more does my hatred of human nature increase.
I would rather be a tree than a man.
You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds.