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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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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. – Jonathan Swift

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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville

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Thats the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. – Miguel de Cervantes

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What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesnt have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesnt want to go anywhere else. – Hal Boyle

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Swans sing before they die – twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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