#proportion

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am. ↗

— John Hunter

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ↗

— Paul Bert

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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. ↗

— Thomas Sprat

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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

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Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted. ↗

— Ray Dalio

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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ↗

— John Galsworthy

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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. ↗