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“It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.”

People Want Humans Young Human Nature Tears Normal Curious Cheer Old People

Author:Amy Grant

“It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.”

Humans Lines Successful Human Nature Tears Glad Killers

Book:Ship Breaker: Number 1 in series

Source: Ship Breaker: Number 1 in series

“Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.”

Source: Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear

“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.”

“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

“A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.”

Humans Simple Human Nature Tears Sorrow Creatures Kissing Praise Blame Cooking Simplicity Transient Love Kiss

Author:William Wordsworth

“When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.”

Should Humans Children Soul Faces Choices Difficult Forget Streets Human Nature Tears Mercy Interfere Human Soul Hesitation Rags Humanness Perplexed Perplexity Forget Him

Author:Charles Loring Brace