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• The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

  Henry Adams

  Beautiful, Dog, Spring

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). "1892-1918"

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• In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faith, Surrender, Faith In God

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 552, 2007.

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• A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Condesa de Blessington

  Carácter, Hombres, Luz

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• Real improvement is of slow growth only.

  Séneca el Joven

  Growth, Improvement, Slow Growth

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• False fancy brings real misery.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fancy, Misery

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• I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fancy, Anticipation, Misery

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• Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.

  Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

  Character, Giving, World

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• The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by better and more intelligent service; and yet life is by no means easier, but indeed hard. The demands on time, whether real or imagined, have increased in a greater ratio than the supply of facilities for answering them, and as the earth provokingly continues to revolve on its axis just as rapidly as of old, the days are never long enough for all the duties which they bring.

  Anna Brackett

  Country, Mean, Intelligent

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• Sólo el agua que fluye es pura y dulce. Sólo la peonza y la bicicleta en movimiento no se caen. El descanso no se encuentra en el movimiento irregular y sin propósito, ni tampoco en el estancamiento; todo descanso real y firme debe buscarse en la acción armoniosa.

  Anna Brackett

  Sweet, Moving, Fall

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• La mujer de hoy en día se pone pelucas, pestañas postizas, uñas postizas, dieciséis kilos de maquillaje/sombras/colorete/cremas, sujetadores vivos, almohadillas varias que darían envidia a un defensa, se pone implantes y otras cirugías variadas, y luego se queja de que no puede encontrar un hombre "de verdad"...".

  Maynard James Keenan

  Men, Eyelashes, Fake

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• the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.

  C. D. Amplio

  Future, Past, World

  John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, C. D. Broad (1988). “The Nature of Existence:”, p.23, CUP Archive

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• La enorme influencia que Byron ejerció sobre sus contemporáneos se debió tanto a su sombrío egoísmo como al poder real de su poesía.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Influence, Byron, Gloomy

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• Es posible estar tanto por debajo como por encima de la adulación. Quien no confía en nadie, no confía en aduladores. Quien no valora la gloria real no valorará su falsificación.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Sycophants, Doe, Flattery

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• The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Nombres, tolerancia, reclamaciones

  Discurso pronunciado en el Desayuno Ecuménico de Oración de Dallas, 23 de agosto de 1984, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX.

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• Por supuesto, ha habido un verdadero debate sobre dónde invertir y dónde recortar, y me comprometo a trabajar con miembros de ambos partidos para recortar nuestros déficits y nuestra deuda. Pero no podemos limitarnos a recortar para alcanzar la prosperidad.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Cutting, Taxation

  "El presidente se reunirá con los líderes del Senado; los evacuados de Minot aún no pueden volver a casa; trabajadores indonesios vetados en empleos saudíes; la TSA obliga a un anciano de 95 años a quitarse un pañal de adulto; Bachmann declarará su candidatura el lunes". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. 26 de junio de 2011.

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• Los reyes hacen con los hombres como con las piezas de dinero; les dan el valor que les place, y nosotros estamos obligados a recibirlas a su valor corriente y no al real.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Kings, Men, Giving

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• Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

  Walter Scott

  Greatness, Long, Evil

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• Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dignity, Disadvantages, Ridicule

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). "The Modern Chesterfield", p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Philosophical, Doctors, Two

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• Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Love, Heart, Loss

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• The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Friends, Eye, Glasses

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). "El Breviario del Cínico: Máximas y anécdotas de Nicolás de Chamfort"

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• Él es el verdadero Guru que puede revelar la forma de lo informe ante tus ojos; que enseña el camino simple, sin ritos ni ceremonias; que no te hace cerrar las puertas, ni contener la respiración, ni renunciar al mundo; que te hace percibir el Espíritu Supremo siempre que la mente se apega; que te enseña a estar quieto en medio de todas tus actividades. Intrépido, siempre inmerso en la dicha, mantiene el espíritu del yoga en medio de los goces.

  Kabir

  Yoga, Eye, Simple

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• Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Sorrow, Rays, Delicacy

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• There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

  Edward S. Herman

  Latin, Military, Past

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• The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Elements, Idealism, Ideals

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