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The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. Roland Allen | top
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. Honore de Balzac | top
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. Henri Bergson | top
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever. George Berkeley | top
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. Donald Cargill | top
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He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace. Eugene Field | top
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. William Hazlitt | top
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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. Lafcadio Hearn | top
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They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. Ethan A. Hitchcock | top
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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. Gerard Manley Hopkins | top
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. Maimonides | top
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Wink and shut their apprehensions up. John Marston | top
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. Isaac Newton | top
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As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects. Solomon Ortiz | top
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We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption. Francis Parkman | top
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. Pliny the Elder | top
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Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not. Sellapan Ramanathan | top
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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. Herbert Read | top
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There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.' Charles Francis Richter | top
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Charles de Secondat | top
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca | top
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. William Shenstone | top
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It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. Thomas L. Smith | top
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One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. Charles Sturt | top
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. Alfred North Whitehead | top
