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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature wa

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen mens apples and head their cabbages. – Cyrano de Bergerac

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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

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Im not into organized religion. Im into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing were all just part of nature. – Neil Young

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A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. – Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. – Epictetus

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