#enlarge

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#art #being #civic #enlargement #experience

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. ↗

— William Bligh

#any #attempt #cape #considerable #considerably

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#brave #courage #cowardice #dangers #desperate

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#art #audience #enlarge #enough #glass

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#courage #enlarges #exalt #hope #whatever

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#else #enlarge #everybody #everybody else #i

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. ↗

— Socrates

#beauty #delight #enlarge #his #kind

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. ↗

— Robert South

#desires #enlarges #folly #lessens #men

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. ↗

— Robert South

#contract #enlarge #faculty #fancy #far