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• Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

  Thomas Traherne

  Sweet, Children, Paradise

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.151, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Past, Pet

  Susan Orlean (2012). “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog”, p.235, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

  Walter Wangerin

  God, Father, Should Have

  Walter Wangerin (2003). “This Earthly Pilgrimage: Tales and Observations on the Way”

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• Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

  Edmund Husserl

  Inquiry, Consciousness, Glances

  Edmund Husserl (2014). “Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology”, p.154, Routledge

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• Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

  Norman Cousins

  Laughter, May, Panic

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• I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we must at length end in something like a British constitution, had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birthdays, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character, calculated to prepare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.237

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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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• 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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• How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Children, Parent, Wish

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1838). “Fireside Education ...”, p.102

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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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• Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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• LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Spiritual, Loss

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.150, University of Georgia Press

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• But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did
  they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Deployment, Principles, Events

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of your liver; and you need not restrain yourself with the apprehension that any lady will have the least fear that the violence of your movements will ever shake anything out of your brains.

  Lola Montez

  Fire, Order, Dancing

  Lola Montez (1858). “The Arts of Beauty: Or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet”, p.114

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• There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, People, Tennis

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• So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

  Robert South

  Despair, Littles, Limits

  "Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".

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• In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the care with which we cultivate them, and apply ourselves to the deduction of diverse consequences from them, thinking that we are philosophizing well, while we are only departing the farther from the truth; from which it must be inferred that they who have learned the least of all that has been hitherto distinguished by the name of philosophy are the most fitted for the apprehension of truth.

  Rene Descartes

  Philosophy, Thinking, Names

  "The Principles of Philosophy".

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