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Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

– Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#3528. The law respects form less than substance.

– California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

– Aesop

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

– Thomas Troward

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

– Alexander Pope, Essay on Man

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

– Bible

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

– South

Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.

– Cardinal John Newman

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

– Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

– Robert Francis Kennedy

If we are to hope to correct our abuses of each other and of other races and of our land, and if our effort to correct these abuses is to be more than a political fad that will in the long run be only another form of abuse, then we are going to have to go far beyond public protest and political action. We are going to have to rebuild the substance and the integrity of private life in this country. We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibility that we have parceled out to the bureaus and the corporations and the specialists, and we are going to have to put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and households and neighborhoods...We need persons and households that do not have to wait upon organizations but can make necessary changes in themselves, on their own.

– Wendell Berry

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'

– Wilson Mizner

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

– Sam Brown

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

– Hebrews 11:1, The Bible (King James Version)

Skill Pill - Any practice or substance that shortens the time required to master a skill or subject.

– Chase LeBlanc

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

– Mehmet Murat ildan

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

– Winston Churchill

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

– Isaac Bashevis Singer

Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

– Mario M Cuomo

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

– Les Brown

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

– Henry David Thoreau

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