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“Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.”

Humans Opinion Human Nature Taste Endure Deeper Appeals Permanent Truth And Beauty

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”

Humans Reason Suffering Human Nature Humility Endure Genuine Indifference Sheer Helplessness Anti Bullying

Book:CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot

Source: CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot

“Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.”

Men World Humans Littles Sides Human Nature Band Increase Endure Rounds Rings Iron Polish Cleverness

Book:Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

“At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw out the greatest talent, ingenuity, and creativity of their people and never become truly great, enduring organisations. It stems from an incomplete paradigm of who we are - our fundamental view of human nature. The fundamental reality is, human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four-dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.”

“Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.”

Ifs Humans Self Human Nature Tears Wall Endure Dust Restraint Unstable

Book:Kafka's

Source: Kafka's

“Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.”

Way Firsts Humans Evil Given Human Nature Demand Overcoming Sight Endure Hills Permanent Visible Friday Rivals Demonstration Equilibrium Good Friday

Book:It So Happened

Source: It So Happened

“Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring”

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Book:Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter

Source: Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter