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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish

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

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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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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. – Auguste Rodin

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

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