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• Lydia's marriage had been eminently free from disagreeable shocks or surprises, and amply deserved to be called successful in the usual reasonable and moderate application of that adjective to matrimony; but there had been nothing in it, certainly, to destroy even temporarily anyone's grasp on what are known as the realities of life The doctor considered, and added to his last speech: "Getting converted is surer. —  The Squirrel-Cage
• "I don't know what you are pleased to call realities, my dear Ernest, but I can assure you there are plenty of unpleasant facts, in this protected life of ours Nobody can expect to escape unpleasant facts," said Ernest Then for heaven's sake, let us purchase with them something worth having!" —  The Daughters of Danaus
• When his imagination deals with earthly realities, the noble melancholy of the Greeks lies upon it. —  Milton
• If God be such as Jesus taught, then life everlasting may be a dim, intangible dream, but a dream that is destined to come true: we shall be satisfied when we awake Thus, at the close of this inquiry, we find ourselves left with two ultimate realities--two, not one; alike, not identical; related, and therefore distinct, for a relation can only subsist between one and another: the realities of God and the soul. —  Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
• I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities--a God that made all things--man's immaterial and immortal nature--and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave On reading this beautiful and suggestive letter, an ornithologist remarked that Burns had made a mistake in a fact of natural history. —  Robert Burns

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