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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be

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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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. – Jonathan Swift

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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. – Helen Garner

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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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I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. – Julius Caesar

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin

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