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| Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones. |
| by Mason Cooley |
| The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. |
| by Farrar |
| The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. |
| by Georg C. Lichtenberg |
| In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream. |
| by Luigi Pinrandello |
| Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. |
| by Charley Reese |
| Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. |
| by Adrienne Rich |
| A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it. |
| by Will Rogers |
| Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life. |
| by Unknown |
| Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. |
| by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. |
| by Francis Palgrave |
| Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes. |
| by Sankara |
| I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. |
| by Voltaire |
| Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work. |
| by John William Ward |
| Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. |
| by Robert Burton |
| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. |
| by Charles C. Colton |
| Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small that it scarcely admits of calculation. |
| by David Hume |
| I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. |
| by Abraham Lincoln |
| One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything. |
| by Oscar Wilde |
| The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this 'itself' is the real 'myself.' From this standpoint here language reveals its limitations with a vengeance I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is always 'right,' in the sense that the stars are always in their 'right' places. |
| by Alan Wilson Watts |
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