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“Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.”

World Humans Human Nature Strange Lovely Mistaken Piety Servility

Book:Problems of Life and Mind

Source: Problems of Life and Mind

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”

People Humans Persons Two Book Human Nature Conversation Lovely Oddities

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“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

“It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.”

Humans Young Human Nature Lovely Cynicism Positively

Book:The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

Source: The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

“In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.”

Way Humans Turns Nature Human Beings Human Nature Rounds Lovely Butterfly Caterpillars

Author:Anton Chekhov