Distinct Real

Famous quotes containing the words distinct and/or real:

“To offend and judge are distinct offices,
And of opposed natures.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nor drove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)