#peril

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bring #fraternity #great #light #perils

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Athanasius

#escaping #fellowship #god #heaven #judgment

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#falling #honors #peril #puff #world

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

#gathering #greatest #grief #grieve #i

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ↗

— Confucius

#learning #lost #perilous #thought #without

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#especially #great #hunting #perils

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#hand #harm #head #perilous #strength

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#late #past #peril #too #too late

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#bring #cheese #country #different #different kinds