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“Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.”

Humans Principles Human Nature Pride Spring Lows Weakness Negative Ancestry

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“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

“Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.”

Men Firsts Humans Desire Effort Conditions Human Nature Ambition Spring Capacity Constitution Slavery Enterprise Snaps

Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.”

Humans Age Secret Human Nature Spring Old Age

Author:Esther Forbes

“Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.”

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.”

“Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.”

Inspirational Wisdom Success Failing Human Nature Failure Spring Staggering Smart Women

Author:Samantha Power

“Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.”

People Men Feels Humans May Age Courses Wish Enjoy Common Gone Human Nature Television Spring Capitalism Satisfied Instant Acquire Common Man Refrigerators Inaccessible Amenities

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.”

Men Heart Born Human Nature Goodness Spring

Author:Confucius

“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.”

Humans Character Political Politics Human Nature Models Spring Lasting Tranquility Speculation Political Systems Founding Fathers Gun

Author:Alexander Hamilton