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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable. – W. Somerset Maugham

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. – Samuel Richardson

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Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. – Gwyn Thomas

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal

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