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Letter "A" » apprehension
«Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion»
Author: Florence Nightingale
(Humanitarian, Nurse)
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions, exertion, expectation, patient, surprise, uncertainty
«The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger»
«Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it»
Author: William Shenstone
(Writer)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions, superiority, The Fear, under it, uneasiness
«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.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Falsehood,
Imagination,
Mankind,
Truth,
Understanding
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions
«Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions, beloved, entirely, equally, feels, jealousy
«To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions, belongs, eternal, intellectual, rational, temporal
«There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.»
«What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Animals
| Keywords:
admirable, Angel, Animal World, apprehension, apprehensions, faculty, paragon, paragons, piece of work, The Admirable
«O, no! the apprehension of the goodGives but the greater feeling to the worse.»
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