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"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

Oliver Goldsmith on Nature

More quotes about Nature

  • "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

    Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

  • "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

    Anais Nin on Nature

  • "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

    Albert Einstein on Nature

  • "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

    e. e. cummings on Nature

  • "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

    Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

  • "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

  • "Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

  • "Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

  • "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

  • "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

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