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• I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

  Robert Boyle

  Thinking, Events, May

  Robert Boyle (1835). “Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God...”, p.97

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• The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

  David Lloyd George

  War, Machines, Cauldrons

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• I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

  Muriel Barbery

  Numbers, Population, World

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• The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Husband, Distance

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• But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that all their gold and silver may be leaving them. This seems to me, almost in every case, a groundless apprehension; and I should as soon dread, that all our springs and rivers should be exhausted, as that money should abandon a kingdom where there are people and industry.

  David Hume

  Strong, Spring, Rivers

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.269, VM eBooks

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• The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

  William Godwin

  Elements, Statistics, Logic

  William Godwin (2006). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries”, p.589, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

  Denis Waitley

  Yesterday, May, Tomorrow

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• It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

  David Brainerd

  Missionary, Remarkable, Rational

  David Brainerd (1829). “Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the American Indians”, p.480

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• All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Impossible, Should

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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• [John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.

  Robert Hewison

  Order, Capacity, Observation

  "The Global Search for Education: Art in Education" by C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

  Joan Didion

  Distance, Grief, Eye

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 19, 2013

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• The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the soul the slave of the body. And on the contrary, one who does not spare the body will not be disturbed in whatever he does by apprehensions born of blind love of life. How fortunate is one who is trained to this from childhood!

  Theophan the Recluse

  Love Life, Evil, Childhood

  "Raising Them Right: A Saint's Advice on Raising Children".

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• Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

  Susan Sontag

  Regret, Destiny, Men

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• I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Alcohol, Progress

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.12

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• Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

  Alfred Bester

  Eight, Two, Three

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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• Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate's victory would not make it other than it was.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Night, August

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• It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

  Eric Linklater

  Wall, Ordinary, Ears

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• I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Witty, Food, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.16, Hamilton Books

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• What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorance, Thinking, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.177

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• Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Desire, Bunch

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.31, Infobase Publishing

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• I sensed only an instant of apprehension. She never raised an eyebrow at the question.. Such a brave girl.

  Tite Kubo

  Girl, Eyebrows, Brave

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• Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Giving, Waiting

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Age, Care, Forests

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1998). “North and South”, p.122, OUP Oxford

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• I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Crush, Children, Joy

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wall, Heart, Garden

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.35, Penguin UK

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