#apprehension

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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


#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.


John Marston


#shut #their #up #wink

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


#apprehension #before #days #evident #few

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


#fear #grief #grieve #happen #happened

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.


William Shakespeare


#admirable #angel #apprehension #express #faculties

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.


William Shenstone


#apprehension #envy #fear #our #superiority

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


#apostles #apprehension #cried #illumination #intellectual

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


#deeper #existence #experience #human #human existence

Though the task of opening those doors is in no means difficult, Andria finds herself unable to move her shaking legs, as her ankles tremble in her crystal heels, and her fingers, holding gently onto the length of her gorgeous gown, terribly shake in step with the beat of her precious, precious heart.


Hannah Nikka Bryan


#apprehension #door #fantasy #fear #fiction

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.


Honore de Balzac


#heavenly #love #rises #spirit #things