1 He has a noble nature and a kind heart.
2 But the most natural thing would be to do nothing at all.
3 That's very natural; you might have put it off if he did not wish it.
4 He had been led to the murder through his shallow and cowardly nature, exasperated moreover by privation and failure.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 5 Oh, well, brother, but we have to correct and direct nature, and, but for that, we should drown in an ocean of prejudice.
6 I am not joking, Porfiry whispered, but this time there was not the look of old womanish good nature and alarm in his face.
7 I shall have to pull a long face with him too," he thought, with a beating heart, and he turned white, "and do it naturally, too.
8 One thing only is clear, that the appearance of all these grades and sub-divisions of men must follow with unfailing regularity some law of nature.
9 Sonia, timid by nature, had felt before that day that she could be ill-treated more easily than anyone, and that she could be wronged with impunity.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 5: CHAPTER III 10 The worst of it was his good nature made him trust all sorts of disreputable people, and he drank with fellows who were not worth the sole of his shoe.
11 In short, I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving some new word, must from their very nature be criminals--more or less, of course.
12 The question whether the disease gives rise to the crime, or whether the crime from its own peculiar nature is always accompanied by something of the nature of disease, he did not yet feel able to decide.
13 Otherwise it's hard for them to get out of the common rut; and to remain in the common rut is what they can't submit to, from their very nature again, and to my mind they ought not, indeed, to submit to it.
14 Ten minutes later, however, she was considerably reassured; it was characteristic of Razumihin that he showed his true nature at once, whatever mood he might be in, so that people quickly saw the sort of man they had to deal with.
15 And this hapless Lizaveta was so simple and had been so thoroughly crushed and scared that she did not even raise a hand to guard her face, though that was the most necessary and natural action at the moment, for the axe was raised over her face.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 16 In this vice at least there is something permanent, founded indeed upon nature and not dependent on fantasy, something present in the blood like an ever-burning ember, for ever setting one on fire and, maybe, not to be quickly extinguished, even with years.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER III 17 In spite of their predisposition to obedience very many of them, through a playfulness of nature, sometimes vouchsafed even to the cow, like to imagine themselves advanced people, 'destroyers,' and to push themselves into the 'new movement,' and this quite sincerely.
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