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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. – John Stuart Mill

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift

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Id love to go back to Europe in the 20s and 30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged. – Michael Sheen

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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. – John Keats

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, youll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. – William Bennett

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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. – Norman Vincent Peale

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Life loves the liver of it. – Maya Angelou

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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. – Tallulah Bankhead

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