5,320 Quotes About Real

  • Author Francesca Lia Block
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    My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

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  • Author Francis Bacon
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    We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

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  • Author Francis Bacon
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    I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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  • Author Francis Bacon
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    Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

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  • Author Francis Bacon
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    A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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  • Author Francis Bacon
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    The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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  • Author Frédéric Bastiat
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    Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty, safety, stability, and responsibility - that every person will attain his real worth and the true dignity of his being. It is only under this law of justice that mankind will achieve - slowly, no doubt, but certainly - God's design for the orderly and peaceful progress of humanity.

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  • Author Gaston Bachelard
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    We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

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