NATURE in Classic Quotes

1  The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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2  As she was naturally pale and unbending in manner she made few friends at school.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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3  To appear natural he pushed his cap back on his head and planted his elbows on the table.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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4  With almost maternal solicitude she urged him to let his nature open to the full: she became his confessor.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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5  Villona was in good humour because he had had a very satisfactory luncheon; and besides he was an optimist by nature.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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6  He understood our little failings, understood the weakness of our poor fallen nature, understood the temptations of this life.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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7  The adventures related in the literature of the Wild West were remote from my nature but, at least, they opened doors of escape.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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8  His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularised by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.

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9  The pupil reasserted itself quickly, this half-disclosed nature fell again under the reign of prudence, and her astrakhan jacket, moulding a bosom of a certain fullness, struck the note of defiance more definitely.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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10  He thought that in her eyes he would ascend to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable loneliness.

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11  The adventure of meeting Gallaher after eight years, of finding himself with Gallaher in Corless's surrounded by lights and noise, of listening to Gallaher's stories and of sharing for a brief space Gallaher's vagrant and triumphant life, upset the equipoise of his sensitive nature.

Dubliners By James Joyce
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