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“Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?”

Body Light Science Certain Force Nature Natural Virtue Distance Rays Particles Reflecting Rays Of Light

Book:MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OPTICS

Source: MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OPTICS

“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”

Life Nature Moral Virtue Products Habit Morality Preparation Formation Reception Moral Virtues

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”

“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.”

Needs Sometimes Law Literature Nature Perfect Virtue Inspire Vices Impulse Equilibrium Maintenance

Author:Marquis de Sade

“To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.”

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Author:Rachel Carson

“Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.”

Source: Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance

“Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.”

Nature Virtue Environment Faults Reform Indifferent

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson