Nature

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

nature, adj. (1)

    FSLN 11.217 16 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these...with the natural movement and total strength of their nature and talent...

Nature, Author of, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.97 19 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness.
    FRO2 11.486 4 ...the Author of Nature has not left himself without a witness in any sane mind...

Nature, Divine, n. (1)

    PC 8.230 14 The Divine Nature carries on its administration by good men.

Nature, Efficient, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.179 10 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...

Nature, External, n. (1)

    CL 12.165 24 External Nature is only a half.

Nature, God of, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.193 22 The very defence which the God of Nature has provided for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and pity in the bosom of the beholder.

Nature, Ideal, n. (1)

    Art2 7.48 13 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature...

Nature, Moral, n. (1)

    DSA 1.134 4 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first; this, namely; that the Moral Nature...is not explored...

nature, n. (1310)

    Nat 1.3 4 The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face;...
    Nat 1.3 10 Embosomed for a season in nature...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    Nat 1.3 13 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life...invite us...to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    Nat 1.4 5 ...nature is already...describing its own design.
    Nat 1.4 9 Let us inquire, to what end is nature?
    Nat 1.4 11 All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
    Nat 1.4 27 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME, that is, both nature and art...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    Nat 1.5 3 In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses;...
    Nat 1.5 7 Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man;...
    Nat 1.7 22 Nature never wears a mean appearance.
    Nat 1.8 4 Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit.
    Nat 1.8 8 When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind.
    Nat 1.8 23 To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.
    Nat 1.9 1 The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
    Nat 1.9 6 In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man...
    Nat 1.9 8 Nature says, - [man] is my creature...
    Nat 1.9 14 Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece.
    Nat 1.10 5 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life... which nature cannot repair.
    Nat 1.10 20 ...in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
    Nat 1.11 5 ...it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature...
    Nat 1.11 8 ...nature is not always tricked in holiday attire...
    Nat 1.11 12 Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
    Nat 1.12 8 Under the general name of commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature.
    Nat 1.12 12 Yet although low, [Commodity]...is the only use of nature which all men apprehend.
    Nat 1.13 7 Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result.
    Nat 1.15 1 A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of Beauty.
    Nat 1.16 2 ...besides this general grace diffused over nature, almost all the individual forms are agreeable to the eye...
    Nat 1.16 15 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    Nat 1.16 19 To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal...
    Nat 1.17 26 What was it that nature would say?
    Nat 1.20 4 Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate.
    Nat 1.21 22 Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man...
    Nat 1.22 12 ...nature became ancillary to a man.
    Nat 1.23 6 The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind...
    Nat 1.23 18 [A work of art] is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.
    Nat 1.23 19 ...the works of nature are innumerable and all different...
    Nat 1.23 21 Nature is a sea of forms radically alike...
    Nat 1.24 1 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms - the totality of nature;...
    Nat 1.24 11 Thus is Art a nature passed through the alembic of man.
    Nat 1.24 21 ...beauty in nature is not ultimate.
    Nat 1.25 2 Nature is the vehicle of thought...
    Nat 1.25 8 Nature is the symbol of spirit.
    Nat 1.26 1 ...thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature.
    Nat 1.26 11 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import...is our least debt to nature.
    Nat 1.26 15 Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind...
    Nat 1.27 15 That which intellectually considered we call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit.
    Nat 1.27 21 ...these analogies...pervade nature.
    Nat 1.28 10 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most lively...manner.
    Nat 1.28 13 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
    Nat 1.29 16 This immediate dependence of language upon nature...never loses its power to affect us.
    Nat 1.30 6 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.30 20 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country, namely, who hold primarily on nature.
    Nat 1.31 15 We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
    Nat 1.32 26 ...the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
    Nat 1.32 27 The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass.
    Nat 1.35 5 ...visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side.
    Nat 1.35 17 By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature...
    Nat 1.36 1 In view of the significance of nature, we arrive at once at a new fact, that nature is a discipline.
    Nat 1.36 2 ...nature is a discipline.
    Nat 1.36 18 Nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellectual truths.
    Nat 1.38 18 ...[the wise man's] scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature.
    Nat 1.39 9 The beauty of nature shines in [man's] own breast.
    Nat 1.39 22 Passing by many particulars of the discipline of nature, we must not omit to specify two.
    Nat 1.40 3 Nature is thoroughly mediate.
    Nat 1.40 19 All things...have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
    Nat 1.40 20 Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion; that every globe in the remotest heaven...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.41 8 This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature, as to seem the end for which it was made.
    Nat 1.41 12 Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use.
    Nat 1.41 27 The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference.
    Nat 1.42 18 The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him.
    Nat 1.44 15 ...a law of one organization, holds true throughout nature.
    Nat 1.45 5 A right action seems...to be related to all nature.
    Nat 1.45 10 Words and actions are not the attributes of brute nature.
    Nat 1.45 26 ...far different from the deaf and dumb nature around them, these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue...
    Nat 1.47 5 To this one end of Discipline, all parts of nature conspire.
    Nat 1.47 8 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself...whether nature outwardly exists.
    Nat 1.48 5 Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable to me.
    Nat 1.48 13 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory...as if it affected the stability of nature.
    Nat 1.48 15 God...will not compromise the end of nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
    Nat 1.48 22 The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature.
    Nat 1.48 27 ...we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    Nat 1.49 6 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    Nat 1.49 10 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon...
    Nat 1.49 12 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to esteem nature as an accident and an effect.
    Nat 1.49 16 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
    Nat 1.49 17 In [the senses' and the unrenewed understanding's] view man and nature are indissolubly joined.
    Nat 1.49 21 The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...
    Nat 1.49 23 The first effort of thought...shows us nature aloof...
    Nat 1.50 9 The best moments of life are...the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God.
    Nat 1.50 14 Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
    Nat 1.51 16 In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference...between man and nature.
    Nat 1.52 7 The [sensual man] esteems nature as rooted and fast;...
    Nat 1.52 14 Shakspeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression...
    Nat 1.52 19 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse]...
    Nat 1.55 1 ...thus the poet animates nature with his own thoughts...
    Nat 1.55 20 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles], that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature;...
    Nat 1.55 23 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul...
    Nat 1.56 9 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind...
    Nat 1.56 20 ...we think of nature as an appendix to the soul.
    Nat 1.57 16 Whilst we behold unveiled the nature of Justice and Truth, we learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative.
    Nat 1.57 27 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture, in degrading nature...
    Nat 1.58 6 [Religion and Ethics] both put nature under foot.
    Nat 1.58 10 [Religion] puts an affront upon nature.
    Nat 1.58 17 The devotee flouts nature.
    Nat 1.59 7 I have no hostility to nature...
    Nat 1.59 11 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...
    Nat 1.59 15 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...as the ground which to attain is the object of human life, that is, of man's connection with nature.
    Nat 1.59 16 Culture inverts the vulgar view of nature...
    Nat 1.61 1 It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressive.
    Nat 1.61 8 ...all the uses of nature admit of being summed in one...
    Nat 1.61 19 The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
    Nat 1.62 8 ...the noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
    Nat 1.62 16 Three problems are put by nature to the mind...
    Nat 1.62 25 ...the mind is a part of the nature of things;...
    Nat 1.63 1 Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry.
    Nat 1.63 9 Nature is so pervaded with human life that there is something of humanity in all and in every particular.
    Nat 1.63 12 ...this [ideal] theory makes nature foreign to me...
    Nat 1.64 1 ...behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present;...
    Nat 1.64 6 ...spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us...
    Nat 1.65 9 We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God.
    Nat 1.65 17 ...[the landscape] may show us what discord is between man and nature...
    Nat 1.67 1 ...a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments.
    Nat 1.70 12 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature...
    Nat 1.70 26 We distrust and deny inwardly our sympathy with nature.
    Nat 1.71 15 [Man] filled nature with his overflowing currents.
    Nat 1.72 6 [Man] perceives that...if his word is sterling yet in nature...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    Nat 1.72 9 At present, man applies to nature but half his force.
    Nat 1.72 15 [Man's] relation to nature...is through the understanding...
    Nat 1.72 27 ...there are not wanting...occasional examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force...
    Nat 1.73 24 The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.
    Nat 1.75 17 Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands.
    Nat 1.76 1 Nature is not fixed but fluid.
    Nat 1.76 3 The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit;...
    Nat 1.76 25 The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up...
    Nat 1.77 8 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    AmS 1.82 11 ...I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day...
    AmS 1.84 25 The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature.
    AmS 1.85 5 What is nature to [the scholar]?
    AmS 1.85 18 ...[the young mind] finds how to join two things and see in them one nature;...
    AmS 1.86 13 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization, the outskirts of nature...
    AmS 1.87 1 ...nature is the opposite of the soul...
    AmS 1.87 4 Nature then becomes to [the scholar] the measure of his attainments.
    AmS 1.87 6 So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does [the scholar] not yet possess.
    AmS 1.87 9 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
    AmS 1.89 20 Hence the book-learned class, who value books...not as related to nature and the human constitution...
    AmS 1.91 25 [The best books] impress us with the conviction that one nature wrote and the same reads.
    AmS 1.98 19 That great principle of Undulation in nature...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    AmS 1.98 26 ...these fits of easy transmission and reflection...are the law of nature...
    AmS 1.100 1 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature;...
    AmS 1.100 14 I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by nature...
    AmS 1.101 23 [The scholar] is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature.
    AmS 1.103 22 ...[the orator] finds...that [his hearers] drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature;...
    AmS 1.104 18 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and search its nature...
    AmS 1.104 22 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent;...
    AmS 1.105 5 It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature;...
    AmS 1.105 16 They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art...
    AmS 1.106 23 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman...who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
    AmS 1.107 3 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature...
    AmS 1.109 24 Do we fear lest we should outsee nature and God...
    AmS 1.111 22 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    AmS 1.112 14 A man is related to all nature.
    AmS 1.113 2 ...[Swedenborg] saw and showed the connection between nature and the affections of the soul.
    AmS 1.113 6 Especially did [Swedenborg's] shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature;...
    AmS 1.114 3 ...in yourself is the law of all nature...
    DSA 1.119 13 The mystery of nature was never displayed more happily.
    DSA 1.123 12 ...speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.
    DSA 1.124 16 Whilst a man seeks good ends, he is strong by the whole strength of nature.
    DSA 1.127 13 The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution.
    DSA 1.127 18 ...the divine nature is attributed to one or two persons...
    DSA 1.131 14 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding... even virtue and truth foreclosed...
    DSA 1.131 22 ...you must subordinate your nature to Christ's nature;...
    DSA 1.136 9 ...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation...the grandeur that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
    DSA 1.137 3 ...the laws of nature control the activity of the hands...
    DSA 1.137 9 ...now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature;...
    DSA 1.141 21 ...historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man;...
    DSA 1.145 7 None assayeth the stern ambition to be the Self of the nation and of nature...
    DSA 1.149 4 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are...the dictators of fortune. One needs not praise their courage, - they are the heart and soul of nature.
    LE 1.156 22 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    LE 1.158 10 The resources of the scholar are co-extensive with nature and truth...
    LE 1.158 20 A divine pilgrim in nature, all things attend [the scholar's] steps.
    LE 1.161 16 I console myself...by...seeing what the prolific soul could beget on actual nature;...
    LE 1.163 19 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell,-the details of that nature...called Byron, or Burke;...
    LE 1.165 14 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...
    LE 1.167 11 The perpetual admonition of nature to us, is, The world is new...
    LE 1.167 15 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...
    LE 1.169 2 That is morning...to become as large as nature.
    LE 1.169 20 [All men] serve nature for bread...
    LE 1.170 5 ...[every man's] own conversation with nature is still unsung.
    LE 1.171 4 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
    LE 1.171 24 ...the first observation you make, in the sincere act of your nature...may open a new view of nature and of man...
    LE 1.171 25 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man...
    LE 1.175 19 ...accept the hint...of spiritual emptiness and waste which true nature gives you...
    LE 1.175 22 ...welcome falls the imprisoning rain,-dear hermitage of nature.
    LE 1.180 26 ...when all tactics had come to an end then [Napoleon]... availed himself of the mighty saltations of the most formidable soldiers in nature.
    LE 1.184 7 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature...
    LE 1.186 9 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature...
    LE 1.186 26 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your property...in art, in nature, and in hope.
    MN 1.196 14 The new book says, I will give you the key to nature...
    MN 1.196 27 In the absence of man, we turn to nature...
    MN 1.197 2 In the divine order, intellect is primary; nature, secondary;...
    MN 1.197 8 We can never be quite strangers or inferiors in nature.
    MN 1.197 13 ...we can use nature as a convenient standard...
    MN 1.197 17 When man curses, nature still testifies to truth and love.
    MN 1.197 18 We may...safely study the mind in nature...
    MN 1.197 24 ...it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate this hour by exploring the method of nature.
    MN 1.198 17 ...one who conceives the true order of nature...cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    MN 1.199 7 The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
    MN 1.199 9 We can never surprise nature in a corner;...
    MN 1.199 24 ...insane persons are those who...do not flow with the course of nature.
    MN 1.199 26 ...nature descends always from above.
    MN 1.200 17 Away, profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause?
    MN 1.201 2 Nature can only be conceived as existing to a universal and not to a particular end;...
    MN 1.201 14 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life...
    MN 1.201 18 That no single end may be selected and nature judged thereby, appears from this...
    MN 1.203 8 ...total nature is growing like a field of maize in July;...
    MN 1.204 1 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends...
    MN 1.204 10 With this conception of the genius or method of nature, let us go back to man.
    MN 1.207 13 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature...
    MN 1.208 10 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego...
    MN 1.212 1 Is it [man's] work in the world to study nature, or the laws of the world?
    MN 1.212 3 Is [man's work in the world] for use? nature is debased...
    MN 1.212 9 There is something social and intrusive in the nature of all things;...
    MN 1.212 10 ...[all things] seek to penetrate and overpower each the nature of every other creature...
    MN 1.213 2 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child, and, if they can, cause their nature to pass through his wondering eyes into him...
    MN 1.213 6 ...man...must look at nature with a supernatural eye.
    MN 1.213 8 By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is [man] safe and commands it.
    MN 1.213 11 ...as the power or genius of nature is ecstatic, so must its science or the description of it be.
    MN 1.214 6 ...because ecstasy is the law and cause of nature, you cannot interpret it in too high and deep a sense.
    MN 1.214 7 Nature represents the best meaning of the wisest man.
    MN 1.217 12 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...and consults every omen in nature with tremulous interest?
    MN 1.218 21 Nature is a mute...
    MN 1.218 25 ...when Genius arrives...it has no straining to describe, more than there is straining in nature to exist.
    MN 1.221 19 I draw from nature the lesson of an intimate divinity.
    MN 1.222 8 ...the solicitations of this spirit, as long as there is life, are never forborne. Tenderly, tenderly, they woo and court us from every object in nature...
    MN 1.222 18 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight.
    MN 1.223 2 Who shall dare think he has come late into nature...who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
    MN 1.223 26 ...[these qualities]...hold the key to universal nature.
    MR 1.228 1 ...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    MR 1.229 8 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas, and aims to recruit and replenish nature from that source.
    MR 1.232 17 ...the general system of our trade...is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature;
    MR 1.233 15 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them...
    MR 1.235 5 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to put ourselves into primary relations with the soil and nature...
    MR 1.237 12 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MR 1.239 16 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had, whom nature loved and feared...we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.241 9 ...he only can become a master, who...by real cunning extorts from nature its sceptre.
    MR 1.248 5 We are to revise the whole of our social structure, the State, the school...and explore their foundations in our own nature;...
    MR 1.252 5 [Love] is...the panacea of nature.
    MR 1.255 24 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill...
    LT 1.259 20 Nature itself seems to propound to us this topic, and to invite us to explore the meaning of the conspicuous facts of the day.
    LT 1.263 8 [Persons] are an incalculable energy which countervails all other forces in nature...
    LT 1.264 1 ...there is [no fact] that will not change and pass away before a person whose nature is broader than the person which the fact in question represents.
    LT 1.266 6 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may search through nature in vain to parallel...
    LT 1.268 16 ...this [conservative] class...blends itself with the brute forces of nature...
    LT 1.268 17 ...this [conservative] class...is respectable only as nature is;...
    LT 1.271 20 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;...
    LT 1.288 16 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature...shall we learn the Truth?
    LT 1.289 6 To a true scholar the attraction of the aspects of nature...is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    LT 1.289 8 To a true scholar the attraction of...the passages of his experience, is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    LT 1.290 22 ...we are bound on our entrance into nature to speak for [reality].
    Con 1.296 2 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. ... It is...the appearance in trifles of the two poles of nature
    Con 1.297 10 ...[Saturn] feared again; and nature froze...
    Con 1.299 13 ...[conservatism] distrusts nature;...
    Con 1.299 26 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
    Con 1.300 11 ...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself...
    Con 1.300 15 Throughout nature the past combines in every creature with the present.
    Con 1.301 1 In nature, each of these elements [Conservatism and Reform] being always present, each theory has a natural support.
    Con 1.301 8 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages... this is the best throw of the dice of nature that has yet been, or that is yet possible.
    Con 1.301 14 ...this bifold fact [Conservatism and Reform] lies thus united in real nature...
    Con 1.302 26 The reformer, the partisan, loses himself in driving to the utmost some specialty of right conduct, until his own nature and all nature resist him;...
    Con 1.303 9 We have all a certain intellection...of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose themselves. Whatever they attempt in that direction...reacts suicidally on the actor himself. This is the penalty of having transcended nature.
    Con 1.303 20 ...[the existing world] has the endorsement of nature...
    Con 1.303 22 ...[the existing world] has...a long friendship and cohabitation with the powers of nature.
    Con 1.305 12 ...you [reformers] are betrayed by your own nature.
    Con 1.307 13 [The youth says] Nature has sufficiently provided me with rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
    Con 1.308 26 ...I feel called upon in behalf of rational nature...to declare to you my opinion that if the Earth is yours so also is it mine.
    Con 1.317 21 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...
    Con 1.317 23 ...man is the end of nature;...
    Con 1.324 16 Cannot I too descend a Redeemer into nature?
    Tran 1.330 5 ...the idealist contends that his way of thinking is in higher nature.
    Tran 1.330 11 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which are of the same nature as the faculty which reports them...
    Tran 1.331 2 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
    Tran 1.333 12 Nature, literature, history, are only subjective phenomena.
    Tran 1.337 14 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man...sets the seal of his divine nature to the grace he accords.
    Tran 1.337 19 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    Tran 1.338 6 ...all who by strong bias of nature have leaned to the spiritual side in doctrine, have stopped short of their goal.
    Tran 1.339 1 Nature is transcendental...
    Tran 1.343 1 ...[Transcendentalists] are not by nature melancholy...
    Tran 1.343 9 ...[Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;...
    Tran 1.344 15 ...it seems as if this loneliness, and not this love, would prevail in [the Transcendentalists'] circumstances, because of the extravagant demand they make on human nature.
    Tran 1.344 27 The profound nature will have a savage rudeness;...
    Tran 1.349 13 Few persons have any magnificence of nature to inspire enthusiasm...
    Tran 1.355 22 [Transcendentalists] are lovers of nature also...
    Tran 1.356 27 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and stilted;...all sallies of wit and frolic nature are quite out of the question;...
    Tran 1.358 2 What is the privilege and nobility of our nature but its persistency...
    Tran 1.359 21 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength, to reorganize themselves in nature...
    YA 1.365 16 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
    YA 1.370 23 ...here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    YA 1.370 25 To men legislating for the area...somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself into the code.
    YA 1.372 4 That Genius has infused itself into nature.
    YA 1.372 7 All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and benefit;...
    YA 1.372 22 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at somewhat better than the actual creatures...
    YA 1.372 24 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at... amelioration in nature...
    YA 1.386 20 We must have kings, and we must have nobles. Nature provides such in every society...
    YA 1.389 22 Good nature is plentiful...
    YA 1.395 5 This land...wants no ornament or privilege which nature could bestow.
    Hist 2.3 23 ...the limits of nature give power to but one [law] at a time.
    Hist 2.4 14 ...the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature...
    Hist 2.5 15 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself.
    Hist 2.5 24 It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things.
    Hist 2.7 24 Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows, from mute nature...
    Hist 2.9 4 ...the purpose of nature, betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history.
    Hist 2.10 17 Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all.
    Hist 2.13 1 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all-creating nature... why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
    Hist 2.13 13 Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature.
    Hist 2.13 19 Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
    Hist 2.15 22 Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.
    Hist 2.15 26 Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works...
    Hist 2.16 22 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
    Hist 2.16 25 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude. So Roos entered into the inmost nature of a sheep.
    Hist 2.17 10 ...a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words... the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
    Hist 2.19 6 ...the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Hist 2.19 27 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
    Hist 2.20 3 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself.
    Hist 2.20 23 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    Hist 2.24 6 The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature...
    Hist 2.24 7 The Grecian state is the era...of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body.
    Hist 2.26 17 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes.
    Hist 2.27 20 Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals, who disclose to us new facts in nature.
    Hist 2.31 19 ...in all [man's] weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
    Hist 2.31 21 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
    Hist 2.34 4 The universal nature...sits on [the bard's] neck and writes through his hand;...
    Hist 2.34 5 The universal nature, too strong for the petty nature of the bard, sits on his neck and writes through his hand;...
    Hist 2.36 1 ...[man] is also the correlative of nature.
    Hist 2.36 11 ...out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature...
    Hist 2.37 11 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind.
    Hist 2.38 14 ...in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    Hist 2.38 20 [Each man] shall collect into a focus the rays of nature.
    Hist 2.40 24 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature...
    Hist 2.41 1 ...the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature.
    Hist 2.41 4 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    SR 2.46 19 The power which resides in [man] is new in nature...
    SR 2.48 1 What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!
    SR 2.48 26 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    SR 2.50 24 No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
    SR 2.55 13 ...nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
    SR 2.58 5 I suppose no man can violate his nature.
    SR 2.60 27 Where [a true man] is, there is nature.
    SR 2.63 26 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...
    SR 2.64 18 We first share the life by which things exist and afterwards see them as appearances in nature...
    SR 2.66 2 It must be that when God speaketh he...should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought;...
    SR 2.67 12 [The rose's] nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike.
    SR 2.67 13 [The rose's] nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike.
    SR 2.67 19 [Man] cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present...
    SR 2.69 9 Vast spaces of nature...are of no account.
    SR 2.70 9 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not.
    SR 2.70 23 I see the same law working in nature for conservation and growth.
    SR 2.70 24 Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right.
    SR 2.70 24 Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.
    SR 2.71 12 Let...our docility to our own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches.
    SR 2.73 24 You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine...
    SR 2.77 23 [Prayer as a means to effect a private end] supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.
    SR 2.78 2 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature...
    SR 2.84 5 ...the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature.
    SR 2.88 2 ...a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature.
    Comp 2.93 13 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the nature and endowment of all men.
    Comp 2.96 17 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...
    Comp 2.97 4 An inevitable dualism bisects nature...
    Comp 2.98 6 The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man.
    Comp 2.101 3 Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature.
    Comp 2.101 4 Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature.
    Comp 2.103 1 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature.
    Comp 2.103 2 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature.
    Comp 2.104 21 [Men] think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side, the bitter.
    Comp 2.107 14 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
    Comp 2.110 3 Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature.
    Comp 2.111 12 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature.
    Comp 2.112 6 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.
    Comp 2.112 27 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ... The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor; and every new transaction alters according to its nature their relation to each other.
    Comp 2.113 16 Benefit is the end of nature.
    Comp 2.113 21 In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them...
    Comp 2.114 25 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    Comp 2.114 27 The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power;...
    Comp 2.115 14 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than...in the all the action and reaction of nature.
    Comp 2.115 24 The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice.
    Comp 2.116 12 The laws and substances of nature...become penalties to the thief.
    Comp 2.116 19 The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns every thing to its own nature...
    Comp 2.119 4 The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract...
    Comp 2.119 14 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature...
    Comp 2.119 20 The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
    Comp 2.120 24 There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature.
    Comp 2.121 5 Being is the vast affirmative...swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself. Nature, truth, virtue, are the influx from thence.
    Comp 2.121 18 ...[the criminal]...does not come to a crisis or judgment anywhere in visible nature.
    Comp 2.121 23 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.
    Comp 2.122 26 ...all the good of nature is the soul's...
    Comp 2.123 17 In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the inequalities of condition.
    Comp 2.123 19 The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less.
    Comp 2.124 12 It is the nature of the soul to appropriate all things.
    Comp 2.124 21 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
    SL 2.132 4 The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will live the life of nature...
    SL 2.132 9 Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him, and...his nature shall not yield him any intellectual obstructions and doubts.
    SL 2.133 13 ...our moral nature is vitiated by any interference of our will.
    SL 2.133 17 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.
    SL 2.134 6 Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life.
    SL 2.134 10 We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon; but the best of their power was in nature, not in them.
    SL 2.135 12 We interfere with the optimism of nature;...
    SL 2.135 17 The face of external nature teaches the same lesson.
    SL 2.135 18 Nature will not have us fret and fume.
    SL 2.137 10 Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways.
    SL 2.137 22 He who sees moral nature out and out...is a pedant.
    SL 2.137 24 The simplicity of nature is not that which may easily be read...
    SL 2.138 2 ...the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
    SL 2.138 3 The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
    SL 2.139 3 There is a soul at the centre of nature and over the will of every man...
    SL 2.139 6 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that we prosper when we accept its advice...
    SL 2.143 20 Let [a man] regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature...
    SL 2.145 5 Over all things that are agreeable to his nature and genius the man has the highest right.
    SL 2.147 11 Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees.
    SL 2.150 7 We can love nothing but nature.
    SL 2.150 10 ...nearness or likeness of nature,--how beautiful is the ease of its victory!
    SL 2.150 18 ...a person of related mind, a brother or sister by nature, comes to us so softly and easily...that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
    SL 2.155 17 [The things the great man did] are the demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature;...
    SL 2.155 26 By a divine necessity every fact in nature is constrained to offer its testimony.
    SL 2.156 18 Dreadful limits are set in nature to the powers of dissimulation.
    SL 2.160 6 Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things...
    SL 2.160 7 Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things and the nature of things makes it prevalent.
    SL 2.165 6 ...this under-estimate of our own [possibilities], comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature.
    SL 2.165 13 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter. He does not therefore defer to the nature of these accidental men...
    SL 2.166 11 ...lo! suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form and done some other deed, and that is now the flower and head of all living nature.
    Lov1 2.169 3 Nature...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    Lov1 2.169 14 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... carries him with a new sympathy into nature...
    Lov1 2.170 20 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams... and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.
    Lov1 2.172 1 The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
    Lov1 2.172 9 How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature!
    Lov1 2.173 12 ...without any coquetry the happy, affectionate nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip.
    Lov1 2.174 7 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love...
    Lov1 2.174 9 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
    Lov1 2.175 6 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which made the face of nature radiant with purple light...
    Lov1 2.176 16 [Love] makes all things alive and significant. Nature grows conscious.
    Lov1 2.176 24 ...nature soothes and sympathizes [with the lover].
    Lov1 2.177 21 The like force has the passion [of love] over all [the lover's] nature.
    Lov1 2.178 6 ...let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence [love] which is thus potent over the human youth.
    Lov1 2.179 17 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres...
    Lov1 2.183 15 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature...
    Lov1 2.185 22 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature...is yet a temporary state.
    Lov1 2.186 19 ...it is the nature and end of this relation [love], that [lovers] should represent the human race to each other.
    Lov1 2.188 2 ...nature and intellect and art emulate each other in the gifts and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.
    Lov1 2.188 9 We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
    Fdsp 2.195 11 I confess to an extreme tenderness of nature on this point [of friendship].
    Fdsp 2.195 26 [Our friend's] goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer...
    Fdsp 2.197 26 The law of nature is alternation for evermore.
    Fdsp 2.199 5 The laws of friendship are...of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
    Fdsp 2.201 15 ...after so many ages of experience, what do we know of nature or of ourselves?
    Fdsp 2.201 21 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.
    Fdsp 2.203 18 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing, and what love of nature...he had, he did certainly show him.
    Fdsp 2.204 6 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature.
    Fdsp 2.204 7 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
    Fdsp 2.204 12 ...a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
    Fdsp 2.210 14 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself?
    Fdsp 2.212 19 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them;...
    Fdsp 2.213 23 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims whereof only one or two wander in nature at once...
    Fdsp 2.214 2 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature will be sure to bear us out in...
    Prd1 2.223 6 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...
    Prd1 2.224 18 ...our existence, thus apparently attached in nature to the sun and the returning moon and the periods which they mark...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Prd1 2.224 25 Prudence does not go behind nature and ask whence it is.
    Prd1 2.226 12 ...wherever a wild date-tree grows, nature has...spread a table for [the islander's] morning meal.
    Prd1 2.226 18 ...not one stroke can labor lay to without some new acquaintance with nature...
    Prd1 2.226 19 ...nature is inexhaustibly significant...
    Prd1 2.228 5 ...nature punishes any neglect of prudence.
    Prd1 2.230 18 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature...
    Prd1 2.230 25 We must...ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human nature?
    Prd1 2.230 26 We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same;...
    Prd1 2.233 25 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort, which nature is not slack in sending him, as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
    Prd1 2.235 15 ...every thing in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck...
    Prd1 2.236 12 Human nature loves no contradictions, but is symmetrical.
    Hsm1 2.246 8 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
    Hsm1 2.249 3 The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are punished in us also.
    Hsm1 2.249 13 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    Hsm1 2.250 21 ...[heroism] is the extreme of individual nature.
    Hsm1. 2.252 15 What joys has kind nature provided for us dear creatures!
    Hsm1 2.257 22 ...art and nature...shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
    Hsm1 2.258 14 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should...act on principles that should interest man and nature in the length of our days.
    Hsm1 2.259 15 [A woman] has a new and unattempted problem to solve, perchance that of the happiest nature that ever bloomed.
    Hsm1 2.261 5 Has nature covenanted with me that I should never appear to disadvantage...
    Hsm1 2.264 4 Who does not sometimes...await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
    OS 2.268 20 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest...
    OS 2.270 15 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    OS 2.271 18 Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible.
    OS 2.272 3 We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature...
    OS 2.272 8 The sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand.
    OS 2.273 26 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand, and the like, when we mean that in the nature of things one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive, and the other is permanent and connate with the soul.
    OS 2.275 19 ...there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
    OS 2.276 23 I am certified of a common nature;...
    OS 2.277 6 Childhood and youth see all the world in [persons]. But the larger experience of man discovers the identical nature appearing through them all.
    OS 2.277 10 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature.
    OS 2.277 11 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social;...
    OS 2.280 22 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature...
    OS 2.281 1 We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation.
    OS 2.281 11 A thrill passes through all men...at the performance of a great action, which comes out of the heart of nature.
    OS 2.282 20 The nature of these revelations is the same;...
    OS 2.284 17 It is...in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow;...
    OS 2.284 26 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to...accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature, work and live...
    OS 2.286 8 By virtue of this inevitable nature, private will is overpowered...
    OS 2.289 16 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    OS 2.292 3 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction of resistance...
    OS 2.294 11 ...not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature...
    OS 2.294 15 Let man then learn the revelation of all nature and all thought to his heart;...
    OS 2.294 18 ...the sources of nature are in [man's] own mind...
    OS 2.296 17 [The soul]...feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on, its nature.
    OS 2.296 24 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me...
    Cir 2.299 1 Nature centres into balls/...
    Cir 2.301 3 ...throughout nature this primary figure [the circle] is repeated without end.
    Cir 2.301 5 St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
    Cir 2.301 15 ...there is no end in nature...
    Cir 2.302 1 There are no fixtures in nature.
    Cir 2.303 15 Nature looks provokingly stable and secular...
    Cir 2.305 9 ...the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.
    Cir 2.307 3 I am God in nature;...
    Cir 2.307 8 The sweet of nature is love;...
    Cir 2.310 1 ...all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
    Cir 2.312 11 ...we see literature best from the midst of wild nature...
    Cir 2.314 1 ...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
    Cir 2.316 11 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first... the debt of money, or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature?
    Cir 2.318 2 I own I am gladdened by seeing the predominance of the saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature...
    Cir 2.319 4 Nature abhors the old...
    Cir 2.319 25 In nature every moment is new;...
    Int 2.325 7 ...the intellect dissolves...the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    Int 2.326 17 Nature shows all things formed and bound.
    Int 2.332 7 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature by which we now inspire, now expire the breath;...
    Int 2.335 3 [The constructive intellect] is...the marriage of thought with nature.
    Int 2.336 18 ...the power of picture or expression, in the most enriched and flowing nature, implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Int 2.336 21 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought...
    Int 2.340 14 [The intellect] must have the same wholeness which nature has.
    Int 2.340 18 ...all the laws of nature may be read in the smallest fact.
    Int 2.340 24 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature.
    Int 2.342 21 As long as I hear truth I...am not conscious of any limits to my nature.
    Int 2.346 17 With a geometry of sunbeams the soul lays the foundations of nature.
    Art1 2.351 10 The details, the prose of nature [the painter] should omit...
    Art1 2.351 17 ...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature and not nature itself...
    Art1 2.352 10 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of nature, but a still finer success...
    Art1 2.355 8 ...every object has its roots in central nature...
    Art1 2.356 2 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...stands then and there for nature.
    Art1 2.356 9 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last...the opulence of human nature...
    Art1 2.357 6 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street...
    Art1 2.358 15 In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art;...
    Art1 2.359 2 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature...
    Art1 2.359 8 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all.
    Art1 2.360 13 [The artist] need not cumber himself with a conventional nature and culture...
    Art1 2.363 20 Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is [art's] end.
    Art1 2.364 18 Nature transcends all our moods of thought...
    Art1 2.365 22 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
    Art1 2.366 6 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Art1 2.366 22 ...this division of beauty from use, the laws of nature do not permit.
    Art1 2.367 7 Now men do not see nature to be beautiful...
    Art1 2.367 18 ...[art] stands in the imagination as somewhat contrary to nature...
    Art1 2.368 1 In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful.
    Art1 2.369 1 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat...is a step of man into harmony with nature.
    Pt1 3.1 8 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through man, and woman, and sea, and star/ Saw the dance of nature forward far;/...
    Pt1 3.4 24 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...
    Pt1 3.5 8 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
    Pt1 3.5 25 ...the great majority of men seem to be...mutes, who cannot report the conversation they have had with nature.
    Pt1 3.6 5 Too feeble fall the impressions of nature on us to make us artists.
    Pt1 3.8 15 ...nature is as truly beautiful as it is good...
    Pt1 3.10 2 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive that...it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
    Pt1 3.11 5 I had fancied that...nature had spent her fires;...
    Pt1 3.12 8 That will reconcile me to life and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by a tendency...
    Pt1 3.13 6 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...
    Pt1 3.13 10 Nature offers all her creatures to [the poet] as a picture-language.
    Pt1 3.13 19 Things admit of being used as symbols because nature is a symbol...
    Pt1 3.15 3 ...every thing in nature answers to a moral power...
    Pt1 3.15 12 ...if you please, every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible of these enchantments of nature;...
    Pt1 3.15 15 Who loves nature? Who does not?
    Pt1 3.15 26 ...[the coachman or the hunter] has no definitions, but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present.
    Pt1 3.16 5 It is nature the symbol...which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
    Pt1 3.16 6 It is nature the symbol, nature certifying the supernatural...which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
    Pt1 3.17 8 ...there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Pt1 3.17 9 ...there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Pt1 3.17 12 ...the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs... disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
    Pt1 3.18 24 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole... disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
    Pt1 3.18 26 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole,--re-attaching even artificial things and violation of nature, to nature, by a deeper insight,--disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
    Pt1 3.19 7 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles...
    Pt1 3.21 2 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life, and so his speech flows with the flowing of nature.
    Pt1 3.22 14 This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature...
    Pt1 3.22 15 What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or change;...
    Pt1 3.22 16 ...nature does all things by her own hands...
    Pt1 3.22 24 Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
    Pt1 3.24 6 ...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely ascension...
    Pt1 3.25 18 ...herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally.
    Pt1 3.26 3 Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these [aspects of nature], glide into our spirits, and we participate the invention of nature?
    Pt1 3.26 13 A spy [things] will not suffer; a lover, a poet, is the transcendency of their own nature,--him they will suffer.
    Pt1 3.26 21 ...beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect [every intellectual man] is capable of a new energy...by abandonment to the nature of things;...
    Pt1 3.27 17 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature;...
    Pt1 3.28 21 ...never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick.
    Pt1 3.29 10 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...which should be their toys.
    Pt1 3.33 1 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
    Pt1 3.34 2 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent.
    Pt1 3.35 17 Swedenborg...stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought.
    Pt1 3.35 22 Everything on which [Swedenborg's] eye rests, obeys the impulses of moral nature.
    Pt1 3.37 3 He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
    Pt1 3.37 9 Time and nature yield us many gifts...
    Pt1 3.40 4 What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up! and by what accident it is that these are exposed, when so many secrets sleep in nature!
    Pt1 3.41 14 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants...
    Pt1 3.41 23 Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with nature...
    Exp 3.45 16 Ghostlike we glide through nature...
    Exp 3.45 18 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature...
    Exp 3.47 6 'T is the trick of nature thus to degrade to-day;...
    Exp 3.49 11 I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
    Exp 3.49 22 Nature does not like to be observed...
    Exp 3.50 11 Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
    Exp 3.50 16 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism.
    Exp 3.50 20 Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature?
    Exp 3.54 14 On its own level, or in view of nature, temperament is final.
    Exp 3.55 7 This onward trick of nature is too strong for us...
    Exp 3.59 19 Nature hates peeping...
    Exp 3.64 4 Nature, as we know her, is no saint.
    Exp 3.66 3 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
    Exp 3.66 14 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease. Yet nature will not bear you out.
    Exp 3.66 15 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease. Yet nature will not bear you out. Irresistible nature made men such...
    Exp 3.66 24 ...if one remembers how innocently he began to be an artist, he perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
    Exp 3.68 7 Nature hates calculators;...
    Exp 3.69 9 Nature will not spare us the smallest leaf of laurel.
    Exp 3.72 4 I am ready to die out of nature...
    Exp 3.76 5 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in...
    Exp 3.76 7 Nature and literature are subjective phenomena;...
    Exp 3.77 4 The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence...
    Exp 3.82 4 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides.
    Exp 3.82 21 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter.
    Chr1 3.92 18 Nature seems to authorize trade...
    Chr1 3.95 11 [Character] is a natural power...and all nature cooperates with it.
    Chr1 3.96 1 Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature.
    Chr1 3.96 7 With what quality is in him [a man] infuses all nature that he can reach;...
    Chr1 3.97 3 Everything in nature is bipolar...
    Chr1 3.101 2 In nature there are no false valuations.
    Chr1 3.105 3 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that...give [my soul] eyes to pierce the dark of nature.
    Chr1 3.105 12 Character is nature in the highest form.
    Chr1 3.106 6 ...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be democratized.
    Chr1 3.108 7 Nature never rhymes her children...
    Chr1 3.111 19 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.
    Chr1 3.114 9 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death...
    Chr1 3.115 16 Nature is indulged by the presence of this guest [the holy sentiment].
    Mrs1 3.124 26 ...only that plenteous nature is rightful master which is the complement of whatever person it converses with.
    Mrs1 3.129 27 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence...and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Mrs1 3.130 19 The objects of fashion may be frivolous, or fashion may be objectless, but the nature of this union and selection can be neither frivolous nor accidental.
    Mrs1 3.135 4 Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature...
    Mrs1 3.136 27 Let the incommunicable objects of nature and the metaphysical isolation of man teach us independence.
    Mrs1 3.139 6 Social in its nature, [the spirit of the energetic class] respects everything which tends to unite men.
    Mrs1 3.139 17 ...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is conventional...
    Mrs1 3.149 1 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman who have no bar in their nature...
    Mrs1 3.149 7 A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature...
    Mrs1 3.150 15 ...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
    Mrs1 3.152 3 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy...
    Mrs1 3.152 5 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart...
    Gts 3.159 19 These gay natures [flowers] contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature...
    Gts 3.159 20 Nature does not cocker us;...
    Nat2 3.169 5 There are days which occur in this climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a harmony, as if nature would indulge her offspring;...
    Nat2 3.170 11 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would...suffer nature to intrance us.
    Nat2 3.170 27 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind, all memory obliterated by the tyranny of the present, and we were led in triumph by nature.
    Nat2 3.171 20 There are all degrees of natural influence, from these quarantine powers of nature, up to her dearest and gravest ministrations to the imagination and the soul.
    Nat2 3.171 26 We nestle in nature...
    Nat2 3.174 1 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence.
    Nat2 3.174 23 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
    Nat2 3.175 25 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians, a kind of aristocracy in nature...
    Nat2 3.176 20 Nature cannot be surprised in undress.
    Nat2 3.176 24 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
    Nat2 3.177 7 A dilettanteism in nature is barren and unworthy.
    Nat2 3.177 18 ...ordinarily...as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
    Nat2 3.178 2 Nature is loved by what is best in us.
    Nat2 3.178 6 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself.
    Nat2 3.178 10 If there were good men, there would never be this rapture in nature.
    Nat2 3.178 16 The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must consider that our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    Nat2 3.178 20 ...nature is erect...
    Nat2 3.178 24 By fault of our dulness and selfishness we are looking up to nature...
    Nat2 3.178 24 ...when we are convalescent, nature will look up to us.
    Nat2 3.179 2 Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade.
    Nat2 3.179 14 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes (as the ancients represented nature by Proteus, a shepherd,)...
    Nat2 3.179 26 Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature...
    Nat2 3.180 17 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature...
    Nat2 3.180 27 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff...
    Nat2 3.181 6 Nature is always consistent...
    Nat2 3.182 21 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature...
    Nat2 3.183 2 Nature, who made the mason, made the house.
    Nat2 3.183 17 Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore is [man] the prophet and discoverer of her secrets.
    Nat2 3.183 23 A man does not tie his shoe without recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature...
    Nat2 3.184 17 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled.
    Nat2 3.185 1 Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.
    Nat2 3.185 5 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path...
    Nat2 3.186 6 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic.
    Nat2 3.187 7 ...nature hides in [the lover's] happiness her own end...
    Nat2 3.187 15 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which nature had taken to heart.
    Nat2 3.189 27 ...there is throughout nature something mocking...
    Nat2 3.190 7 We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.
    Nat2 3.192 3 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations. Were the ends of nature so great and cogent as to exact this immense sacrifice of men?
    Nat2 3.192 7 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
    Nat2 3.192 20 The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before [the poet] does not seem to be nature. Nature is still elsewhere.
    Nat2 3.193 23 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature?
    Nat2 3.193 26 To the intelligent, nature converts itself into a vast promise...
    Nat2 3.194 26 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.
    Nat2 3.195 9 These [universal laws]...stand around us in nature forever embodied...
    Nat2 3.195 21 ...nature cannot be cheated;...
    Nat2 3.196 1 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being, from the centre to the poles of nature...lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    Nat2 3.196 9 Nature is the incarnation of a thought...
    Pol1 3.200 24 Nature is not democratic...
    Pol1 3.201 24 Of persons, all have equal rights, in virtue of being identical in nature.
    Pol1 3.211 4 In the strife of ferocious parties, human nature always finds itself cherished;...
    Pol1 3.212 16 Human nature expresses itself in [laws] as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads;...
    Pol1 3.213 14 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature...
    Pol1 3.213 27 Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
    Pol1 3.214 13 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. ... Love and nature cannot maintain the assumption;...
    Pol1 3.218 19 This conspicuous chair is [senators' and presidents'] compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
    Pol1 3.219 12 ...the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters;...
    Pol1 3.220 9 ...according to the order of nature...it stands thus; there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    Pol1 3.221 11 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
    Pol1 3.221 18 Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of this enthusiasm...
    NR 3.225 2 ...a man is only a relative and representative nature.
    NR 3.226 5 ...that which we inferred from [men's] nature and inception, they will not do.
    NR 3.226 6 ...that which we inferred from [men's] nature and inception, they will not do. That is in nature, but not in them.
    NR 3.231 16 ...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through [the day-laborer's] mind.
    NR 3.233 15 'T is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore.
    NR 3.233 22 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    NR 3.233 26 The genius of nature was paramount at the oratorio [Handel's Messiah].
    NR 3.236 7 Nature will not be Buddhist...
    NR 3.238 10 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she were Circe;...
    NR 3.242 9 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature...
    NR 3.242 22 Nature keeps herself whole and her representation complete in the experience of each mind.
    NR 3.243 6 ...according to our nature [things and persons] act on us not at once but in succession...
    NR 3.244 18 ...let us...infer the genius of nature from the best particulars with a becoming charity.
    NR 3.244 21 Love shows me the opulence of nature...
    NR 3.245 20 ...nature secures [every man] as an instrument by self-conceit...
    NR 3.245 25 ...each man's genius being nearly and affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality, as his nature is found to be immense;...
    NER 3.252 24 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature;...
    NER 3.257 10 The popular education has been taxed with a want of truth and nature.
    NER 3.274 9 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They...conceive a disgust at the indigence of nature...
    NER 3.278 16 There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.
    NER 3.283 16 [The Law] rewards actions after their nature...
    UGM 4.3 9 Nature seems to exist for the excellent.
    UGM 4.5 24 The stronger the nature, the more it is reactive.
    UGM 4.6 22 He is great who is what he is from nature...
    UGM 4.8 9 The aid we have from others is mechanical compared with the discoveries of nature in us.
    UGM 4.8 24 ...each man converts some raw material in nature to human use.
    UGM 4.9 4 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature...
    UGM 4.9 9 A man is a centre for nature...
    UGM 4.10 7 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
    UGM 4.11 21 The reason why [man] knows about [things] is that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of that thing.
    UGM 4.12 1 Unpublished nature will have its whole secret told.
    UGM 4.19 6 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition. The rich would see their mistakes and poverty, the poor their escapes and their resources. But nature brings all this about in due time.
    UGM 4.19 13 Rotation is the law of nature.
    UGM 4.19 14 When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor;...
    UGM 4.20 9 These [leaders and law-givers] teach us the qualities of primary nature...
    UGM 4.20 24 With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires;...
    UGM 4.23 24 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe...
    UGM 4.25 22 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump...
    UGM 4.26 16 The great, or such as hold of nature...are saviors from these federal errors...
    UGM 4.26 25 ...we feed on genius...and exult in the depth of nature in that direction in which he leads us.
    UGM 4.28 5 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
    UGM 4.28 18 ...nature wishes every thing to remain itself;...
    UGM 4.30 18 The thoughtful youth laments the superfoetation of nature.
    UGM 4.32 13 Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.
    UGM 4.35 7 The destiny of organized nature is amelioration...
    PPh 4.45 19 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a...man, able to honor, at the same time, the ideal, or laws of the mind, and fate, or the order of nature.
    PPh 4.50 4 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...pervading, uniform, perfect, preeminent over nature...
    PPh 4.50 14 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
    PPh 4.51 6 That which the soul seeks is...liberation from nature.
    PPh 4.51 11 ...[diversity] is the power of nature.
    PPh 4.51 11 Nature is the manifold.
    PPh 4.51 13 Nature opens and creates.
    PPh 4.54 23 The wonderful synthesis so familiar in nature;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.56 20 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    PPh 4.63 15 I announce the good of being interpenetrated by the mind that made nature...
    PPh 4.63 16 I announce the good of being interpenetrated by the mind that made nature: this benefit, namely, that it can understand nature, which it made and maketh.
    PPh 4.63 17 Nature is good, but the intellect is better...
    PPh 4.65 27 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
    PPh 4.66 18 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages...
    PPh 4.69 1 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature.
    PPh 4.71 4 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others:--the rather that his broad good nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally...
    PPh 4.76 14 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary. I know not what can be said in reply to this criticism but that we have come to a fact in the nature of things: an oak is not an orange.
    PPh 4.77 11 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered; not nature, but art.
    PPh 4.77 26 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth. There he perishes: unconquered nature lives on and forgets him.
    PPh 4.78 1 In view of eternal nature, Plato turns out of be philosophical exercitations.
    PPh 4.78 9 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    PPh 4.78 18 The way to know [Plato] is to compare him, not with nature, but with other men.
    PNR 4.80 19 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    PNR 4.82 9 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
    PNR 4.82 18 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path which...runs continuously round the universe. Therefore every word becomes an exponent of nature.
    PNR 4.82 22 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death,--that law by which, in nature, decomposition is recomposition...
    PNR 4.84 9 Plato affirms...that the order or proceeding of nature was from the mind to the body...
    PNR 4.86 20 [Plato]...descended into detail with a courage like that he witnessed in nature.
    PNR 4.86 24 [Plato] domesticates the soul in nature...
    PNR 4.87 2 The names of things, too, [to Plato] are fatal, following the nature of things.
    PNR 4.87 15 ...this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer [Plato]... marries the two parts of nature.
    PNR 4.88 8 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
    PNR 4.88 9 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
    PNR 4.89 16 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards.
    SwM 4.95 7 The Koran makes a distinct class of those who are by nature good...
    SwM 4.95 16 The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.
    SwM 4.96 12 ...all things in nature being linked and related...nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    SwM 4.102 22 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain... quasi omnipresence of the human soul in nature, is possible.
    SwM 4.102 23 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation, as from a tower, over nature and arts...almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
    SwM 4.103 15 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature;...
    SwM 4.103 17 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
    SwM 4.103 18 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature...
    SwM 4.104 9 The robust Aristotelian method...opening, by its terminology and definition, high roads into nature, had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.104 15 ...Descartes...had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    SwM 4.104 20 Malpighi...had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    SwM 4.104 27 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's] contemporary, was affirming... that Nature is always like herself...
    SwM 4.105 16 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving...the first birth and annunciation of one of the laws of nature.
    SwM 4.106 14 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature; the Platonic doctrine of the scale or degrees;...
    SwM 4.106 19 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the centrality of man in nature...
    SwM 4.107 10 In the old aphorism, nature is always self-familiar.
    SwM 4.107 18 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae...
    SwM 4.108 17 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself. Nature recites her lesson once more in a higher mood.
    SwM 4.109 6 ...in nature is no end...
    SwM 4.110 9 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality;...
    SwM 4.110 13 These grand rhymes or returns in nature...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    SwM 4.112 5 [Swedenborg] saw nature wreathing through an everlasting spiral...
    SwM 4.112 18 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature...
    SwM 4.112 22 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg]...
    SwM 4.112 25 [Swedenborg] thought as large a demand is made on our faith by nature, as by miracles.
    SwM 4.114 4 The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...and which Malpighi had summed in his maxim that nature exists entire in leasts,--is a favorite thought of Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.115 5 The hardihood and thoroughness of [Swedenborg's] study of nature required a theory of forms also.
    SwM 4.116 3 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... throughout nature...
    SwM 4.117 2 Lord Bacon had found that truth and nature differed only as seal and print;...
    SwM 4.119 4 To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    SwM 4.121 1 [Swedenborg's] perception of nature is not human and universal...
    SwM 4.121 9 In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts...
    SwM 4.121 16 Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves.
    SwM 4.121 22 [Swedenborg's] theological bias thus fatally narrowed his interpretation of nature...
    SwM 4.122 7 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again...
    SwM 4.123 11 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory, and his feeling of the ignorance of men, strangely exaggerated. Men take truths of this nature very fast.
    SwM 4.126 14 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends.
    SwM 4.127 14 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law stated...with that scope for ascension of state which the nature of things requires.
    SwM 4.128 10 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness: but presently one of us passes into the perception of new truth;--we are divorced, and no tension in nature can hold us to each other.
    SwM 4.128 22 ...we pity those who can forego the magnificence of nature for candle-light and cards.
    SwM 4.134 8 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man, because he is right by his wrong, and wrong by his right;....
    SwM 4.136 25 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    SwM 4.141 1 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul. But it is certain that it must tally with what is best in nature.
    SwM 4.141 10 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded...
    SwM 4.143 7 It is the best sign of a great nature that it opens a foreground...
    SwM 4.143 12 Some minds are for ever restrained from descending into nature;...
    SwM 4.143 15 ...[Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature...
    SwM 4.144 26 [Swedenborg] elected goodness as the clue to which the soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.
    SwM 4.145 15 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    SwM 4.145 23 By the science of experiment and use, [Swedenborg] made his first steps: he observed and published the laws of nature;...
    SwM 4.146 9 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him...and he renders a second passive service to men... and, in the retributions of spiritual nature, not less glorious or less beautiful to himself.
    MoS 4.150 2 Each man is born with a predisposition to one or the other of these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals];...
    MoS 4.151 1 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes...
    MoS 4.154 21 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    MoS 4.157 1 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    MoS 4.161 3 Adaptiveness is the peculiarity of human nature.
    MoS 4.161 8 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of...what is best in the planet; art and nature, places and events;...
    MoS 4.171 1 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive;...
    MoS 4.171 23 Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature...
    MoS 4.177 7 Fate, in the shape of Kinde or nature, grows over us like grass.
    MoS 4.180 4 ...shall we, because a good nature inclines us to virtue's side, say, There are no doubts...
    MoS 4.181 6 Others there are to whom the heaven is brass, and it shuts down to the surface of the earth. It is a question of temperament, or of more or less immersion in nature.
    MoS 4.182 9 the people's questions are not [the spiritualist's]; their methods are not his; and against all the dictates of good nature he is driven to say he has no pleasure in them.
    MoS 4.183 15 A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe; that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
    MoS 4.185 3 The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor...
    ShP 4.211 17 ...[Shakespeare] knew the laws of repression which make the police of nature...
    ShP 4.213 3 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong...
    ShP 4.217 22 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
    NMW 4.230 23 Nature must have far the greatest share in every success, and so in [Bonaparte's].
    NMW 4.231 11 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune...
    NMW 4.231 14 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of valuing himself...on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature.
    NMW 4.237 14 My ambition, [Napoleon] says, was great, but was of a cold nature.
    NMW 4.239 10 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
    NMW 4.258 13 It was the nature of things...which baulked and ruined [Napoleon];...
    GoW 4.261 8 Nature will be reported.
    GoW 4.262 1 In nature, this self-registration is incessant...
    GoW 4.262 4 ...nature strives upward;...
    GoW 4.264 1 Nature conspires.
    GoW 4.264 9 This striving after imitative expression...is significant of the aim of nature...
    GoW 4.264 10 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office;...
    GoW 4.264 16 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar.
    GoW 4.268 4 ...great action must draw on the spiritual nature.
    GoW 4.271 16 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind...easily able by his subtlety...to draw his strength from nature...
    GoW 4.274 21 [Goethe] has said the best things about nature that ever were said.
    GoW 4.274 22 [Goethe] treats nature as the old philosophers...did...
    GoW 4.275 1 [Goethe] has contributed a key to many parts of nature...
    GoW 4.280 2 Nature and character assist [Wilhelm Meister's passage from democrat to the aristocracy]...
    GoW 4.280 10 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic; the romantic is completely levelled in it; so is the poetry of nature; the wonderful.
    GoW 4.284 12 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature...
    GoW 4.289 17 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being both representatives of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions...
    ET3 5.34 5 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...the latter because art conquers nature...
    ET3 5.42 21 Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little affectation;...
    ET4 5.49 10 'T is said that the views of nature held by any people determine all their institutions.
    ET4 5.49 21 ...all our historical period is a point to the duration in which nature has wrought.
    ET4 5.50 13 ...nature loves inoculation.
    ET4 5.55 11 [The Celts] planted Britain, and gave to the seas and mountains names which...imitate the pure voices of nature.
    ET4 5.62 26 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature...
    ET4 5.68 5 Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic.
    ET4 5.70 8 [The English] think...that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendant over another;...
    ET4 5.71 2 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.
    ET4 5.71 15 Men of animal nature rely, like animals, on their instincts.
    ET5 5.79 19 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. Whatsoever he doth, swarving from this work, he doth as deficient from the nature of man;...
    ET5 5.80 15 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists, following the sequence of nature...
    ET6 5.104 19 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from a good adjustment of the moral and physical nature...
    ET6 5.108 16 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    ET6 5.108 21 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is copied from English nature;...
    ET6 5.111 10 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;...and Wellington, that habit was ten times nature.
    ET7 5.117 2 Nature has endowed some animals with cunning...
    ET8 5.130 12 [Englishmen's] habits and instincts cleave to nature.
    ET8 5.136 3 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    ET9 5.147 8 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
    ET9 5.148 4 ...nature makes nothing in vain...
    ET9 5.151 23 Nature and destiny are always on the watch for our follies.
    ET9 5.151 25 Nature trips us up when we strut;...
    ET10 5.166 12 The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of temperament in the people. The wonder of Britain is this plenteous nature.
    ET11 5.185 22 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... who...have seen every secret of art and nature...
    ET12 5.200 12 It is a curious proof of the English use and wont, or of their good nature, that these young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...
    ET12 5.207 7 The English nature takes culture kindly.
    ET12 5.207 11 [The Englishman]...unless of an impulsive nature, is indisposed from writing or speaking, by the fulness of his mind...
    ET13 5.226 3 ...[the religious element] is in its nature constructive...
    ET14 5.237 5 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
    ET14 5.241 4 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
    ET14 5.242 7 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Doctor Samuel Clarke's argument for theism from the nature of space and time;...
    ET14 5.253 5 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;...
    ET14 5.253 9 The eye of the naturalist must have a scope like nature itself...
    ET14 5.255 17 In the absence...of the pure love of knowledge and the surrender to nature, there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
    ET14 5.257 6 [Wordsworth] had no master but nature and solitude.
    ET14 5.258 12 A stanza of the song of nature the Oxonian has no ear for...
    ET16 5.288 14 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious...
    ET18 5.302 18 ...the wealth of the source is seen in the plenitude of English nature.
    F 6.8 10 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the grampus...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    F 6.12 4 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill nowise alters rank in the scale of nature...
    F 6.13 19 [Conservatives] have been effeminated by position or nature...
    F 6.15 5 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...
    F 6.16 19 Nature respects race, and not hybrids.
    F 6.20 3 The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.
    F 6.22 11 Man is not order of nature...
    F 6.22 25 On one side elemental order...and on the other part thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature...
    F 6.24 6 The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
    F 6.24 10 Let [man]...show his lordship by manners and deeds on the scale of nature.
    F 6.30 5 The one serious and formidable thing in nature is a will.
    F 6.32 15 Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon race, which nature cannot bear to lose...
    F 6.36 21 This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
    F 6.36 22 Nature is intricate, overlapped, interweaved and endless.
    F 6.38 9 Nature is no spendthrift...
    F 6.38 12 ...nature makes every creature do its own work...
    F 6.40 26 Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes...
    F 6.45 20 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
    F 6.47 10 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature...
    F 6.47 27 ...by the cunning co-presence of two elements, which is throughout nature, whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity...to repay.
    F 6.48 7 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity which holds nature and souls in perfect solution...
    F 6.49 3 If in the least particular one could derange the order of nature,- who would accept the gift of life?
    F 6.49 25 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...vivifies nature;...
    Pow 6.53 8 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
    Pow 6.54 1 A cultivated man...is the end to which nature works...
    Pow 6.56 10 All power is...a sharing of the nature of the world.
    Pow 6.56 12 The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events and strong with their strength.
    Pow 6.61 27 Personal power, freedom, and the resources of nature strain every faculty of every citizen.
    Pow 6.64 19 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.
    Pow 6.65 1 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
    Pow 6.71 5 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition [from savagery to civility]...
    Pow 6.71 7 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
    Pow 6.74 21 [Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his thought.
    Pow 6.79 4 More are made good by exercitation than by nature, said Democritus.
    Pow 6.79 5 The friction in nature is so enormous that we cannot spare any power.
    Wth 6.85 18 Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature...
    Wth 6.86 5 Wealth is in applications of mind to nature;...
    Wth 6.88 2 ...here we must recite the iron law which nature thunders in these northern climates.
    Wth 6.88 26 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    Wth 6.89 13 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Wth 6.90 7 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as is the marriage of his faculties with nature...
    Wth 6.93 8 Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves...
    Wth 6.94 15 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents, copper-miners... is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.
    Wth 6.95 26 I have never seen a man...with an adequate command of nature.
    Wth 6.96 7 Men are urged by their ideas to acquire the command over nature.
    Wth 6.97 19 ...how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
    Wth 6.99 18 Man was born to be rich, or inevitably grows rich...by the union of thought with nature.
    Wth 6.101 18 Money...follows the nature and fortunes of the owner.
    Wth 6.106 5 The laws of nature play through trade...
    Wth 6.106 26 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wth 6.111 16 Our nature and genius force us to respect ends...
    Wth 6.112 3 Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other...
    Wth 6.116 26 Nature goes by rule...
    Wth 6.120 25 The rule is...to learn practically the secret spoken from all nature...
    Wth 6.121 11 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing...
    Wth 6.121 20 On this art of nature all our arts rely.
    Wth 6.125 6 ...these things are so in nature. All things ascend...
    Wth 6.126 13 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms...
    Ctr 6.131 12 For performance, nature has no mercy...
    Ctr 6.131 20 ...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...
    Ctr 6.132 18 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Ctr 6.134 5 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;...
    Ctr 6.134 8 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...
    Ctr 6.134 15 Every valuable nature is there in its own right...
    Ctr 6.138 19 Nature is reckless of the individual.
    Ctr 6.140 5 ...to meliorate is the law of nature;...
    Ctr 6.141 15 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away. Nature takes the matter into her own hands...
    Ctr 6.146 10 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her hint...
    Ctr 6.147 10 ...nature has put fruits apart in latitudes...
    Ctr 6.156 6 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras; that nature may speak to the imagination...
    Ctr 6.159 26 ...[a cheerful intelligent face] indicates the purpose of nature and wisdom attained.
    Ctr 6.166 13 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Bhr 6.169 1 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure...of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
    Bhr 6.169 8 Nature tells every secret once.
    Bhr 6.171 13 The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a high state of nature or of culture.
    Bhr 6.177 7 The whole economy of nature is bent on expression.
    Bhr 6.179 14 [The communication by the glance] is the bodily symbol of identity of nature.
    Bhr 6.186 25 The hero...should impart comfort by his own security and good nature to all beholders.
    Bhr 6.189 5 Nature forever puts a premium on reality.
    Bhr 6.197 11 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down. For positive rules, for suggestion, nature alone inspires it.
    Bhr 6.197 23 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray...that there is some other one or many of her class to whom she habitually postpones herself. But nature lifts her easily and without knowing it over these impossibilities...
    Wsp 6.202 20 ...[Faith] tyrannizes at the centre of nature.
    Wsp 6.204 5 Nature has self-poise in all her works;...
    Wsp 6.204 13 The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out...
    Wsp 6.214 9 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training...
    Wsp 6.214 15 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the same...
    Wsp 6.215 12 I find the omnipresence and the almightiness in the reaction of every atom in nature.
    Wsp 6.215 14 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor...
    Wsp 6.217 10 ...not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    Wsp 6.219 20 Religion or worship is the attitude of those...who see that against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right forever.
    Wsp 6.221 9 In us, [the law] is inspiration; out there in nature we see its fatal strength.
    Wsp 6.222 27 Nature created a police of many ranks.
    Wsp 6.231 10 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act but on the wages...is almost equally low.
    Wsp 6.231 15 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed into his action, and taketh its nature...
    CbW 6.250 13 Nature makes fifty poor melons for one that is good...
    CbW 6.250 18 Nature works very hard...
    CbW 6.252 4 Nature turns all malfeasance to good.
    CbW 6.252 4 Nature provided for real needs.
    CbW 6.254 26 Nature is upheld by antagonism.
    CbW 6.255 24 ...nature watches over all...
    CbW 6.259 21 ...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures. We only insist...that the plant grow upward and convert the base into the better nature.
    CbW 6.260 11 Human nature is prone to indulgence...
    CbW 6.262 17 Nature is a rag-merchant...
    CbW 6.265 23 A man should make life and nature happier to us...
    CbW 6.270 3 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that nature and gravitation are quite wrong, and he only is right.
    CbW 6.271 15 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...what magical powers over nature and men;..he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    CbW 6.276 5 ...nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
    CbW 6.277 1 Wherever there is failure, there is...some step omitted, which nature never pardons.
    Bty 6.281 21 The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to nature;...
    Bty 6.282 23 ...man, when his powers unfold in order, will take nature along with him...
    Bty 6.284 2 The motive of science was the extension of man...into nature...
    Bty 6.286 5 ...we are aware of a perfect law in nature...
    Bty 6.286 25 ...not less does nature furnish us with every sign of grace and goodness.
    Bty 6.287 11 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature, of the human face and form...
    Bty 6.288 21 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
    Bty 6.290 1 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
    Bty 6.294 2 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as...the action and reaction of nature;...

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