Best human-nature & fruit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.”

Humans Ends Law Fighting Evil Force Forever Human Nature Ready Spring Weight Fruit Ancient Seeking Seeds Bars Bitter Inevitable Climbs Traits Restraint Incessantly

Author:James Weldon Johnson

“There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.”

Humans Culture Common Virtue Human Nature Flower Goodness Fruit Excited Seeds Lovely Pleasant Soil Yield Thrust Benevolence Ingenuity Common Experience

Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”

Humanity Tree Talent Dangerous Human Nature Fruit Lovely Thoughtful Memories Dreams Reflections Slender Niece Great Talent Twigs Fruit Trees

Author:Carl Jung

“Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.”

Humans Quality Human Nature Fruit Rate Obvious Corruption Selfishness Principal Defects Good Quality

Book:A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity

Source: A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity

“I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.”

Source: The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays

“The field of earth and of our human nature is now no longer barren but full of the seed of divine life. But it takes time for the seed to grow, for the Kingdom to come, and we are commanded to pray and work for that coming, that growth, even if we do not yet see the fruits, or even the blossoms, or even the leaves...”

Ifs Humans Inspiration Earth Faith Grows Growth Human Nature Fields Divine Praying Fruit Seeds Christian Inspirational Kingdoms Take Time Barren It Takes Time Divine Life

Author:Peter Kreeft

“How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.”

“A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.”

Ifs Humans Persons States Political Enjoy Poor Rich Doubt Human Nature Ought Citizens Add Fruit Possession Labour Diminish Convenience Suitable

Book:Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics

Source: Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics

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