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John Lennon228
English singer and songwriter 1940–1980Related quotes
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Enlightenment
Song lyrics, Enlightenment (1990)
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (February 14-May 3, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)
Variant: Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced
“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Jane Austen book Emma
Emma (1815)
Works, Emma
“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
