#apprehension

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#beauty #comparison #relation

Wink and shut their apprehensions up. ↗

— John Marston

#shut #their #up #wink

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

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

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

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

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

#false #imagine #man #may #only

Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

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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