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    Samuel Rutherford
    “Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.”
    ― Samuel Rutherford
    tags: god, inspirational, your-heart
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
    8430 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
    2140 likes

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    George Orwell
    “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality
    1643 likes

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    John Keats
    “Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.”
    ― John Keats
    967 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: imagination, reality
    757 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    798 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: expectations, experience, grief, mourning, others, personal-experience, reality, suffering
    771 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: fiction, invention, life, reality, strangeness, truth
    438 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

    (There is no reality except in action.)”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
    tags: action, existentialism, handeln, inspirational, philosophy, reality
    321 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, literature, reading, reality
    508 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess
    tags: fiction, huxley, inspirational, reality
    141 likes

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  • #13
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: reality, romance
    109 likes

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    Noah Webster
    “In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.”
    ― Noah Webster
    tags: character, guide, principle
    54 likes

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    Noah Webster
    “The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
    ― Noah Webster
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    Noah Webster
    “Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.”
    ― Noah Webster
    tags: law, liberty, power, public-safety, safety, tyranny
    22 likes

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    George Washington
    “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech
    913 likes

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    George Washington
    “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. ”
    ― George Washington
    436 likes

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    George Washington
    “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: duty, happiness, honor
    276 likes

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  • #20
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
    2204 likes



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