Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punish

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. – Arthur Erickson

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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. – Baruch Spinoza

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