William Hazlitt Quotes About Nature
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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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