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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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift

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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. – Napoleon Hill

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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature. – Christopher Morley

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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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