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"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."

Truth, Fear, Order

"Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing."

Emotion, Feelings, Devotion, Longing

"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."

Death, Food, Strength, Bravery

"Pride and excess bring disaster for man."

Disaster, Excess, Man, Pride

"Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature."

Nature, People, Humannature, Now

"Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion."

Music, Emotion, Harmony, World

"The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power."

Power, Disgrace, Honor, Reflection

"When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm."

Time, Fact, Harm, Man

"Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal."

Nature, Society, End, Quarrels

"Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that."

Nature, Humannature

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"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Nature, Sympathy, Deep, Law

"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Nature, Equality, Custom, Injustice

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Nature, Sky

"At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Nature, Respect, Sea, Water, Wine

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Nature, Life, Power, Deep, Eye

"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Nature, Freedom

"The ocean is a mighty harmonist."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Nature, Ocean

"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Nature, Work, Genius

"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Nature, Soul, Mystery, Sea

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Nature, Books, Eyes