A Quote by Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlotte Bronte

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Nature Cast Did Different Majority Merit Mould Yours

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Charlotte Bronte
British - Novelist
April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

Georges Danton

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

Sonia Sotomayor

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Michel de Montaigne

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Charles Darwin

On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.

Khandi Alexander

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Michel de Montaigne

How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest cast. His law is action: gates of power stand open in his view; a restless soul, a holy zeal, shall give him entrance through.

Deron Williams

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

Eric Berne

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

Neil Peart

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

William Ernest Henley

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

Plato

There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

Eric Hoffer

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.