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“Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.”

Humans Two Given Women Compassion Human Nature Raises Painful Enthusiasm Heavenly

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.”

Men Humans Pleasure Events Human Nature Diversity Species Painful Delight Attractive Pleasant Annoying Disgusting Human Species Great Diversity

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”

Humans Grace Human Nature Catholic Painful

Book:The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.”

Giving Humans Two Body Energy Human Nature Materials Birth Flow Painful Bliss Estrangement

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.”

Men Should Humans Reason Might Pain Lines Secret Behinds Blood Human Nature Red Crosses Sight Depth Painful Instance Damage Accustomed Physicality Donors Clinic Red Cross

Book:Bluebeard's Egg

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

“The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.”

People Humans Pain Political Politics Opinion Human Nature Painful Leap Hasty

Book:The best of Bagehot

Source: The best of Bagehot

“Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.”

Ifs Mind Humans Heart Natural Human Nature Lays Hunger Painful Tendencies Ministers Professors Void Human Heart Clinging Grasping Substitution Vacancy

Book:Sermons: Select Works

Source: Sermons: Select Works