"LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body……" — Ambrose Bierce

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• Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. — Honore de Balzac
• Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson
• I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom… — Donald Cargill
• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. — Florence Nightingale
• Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they… — Alexander Pope
• What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself. — Karl Barth
• I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and… — Benjamin Franklin
• Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is… — Susan Sontag
• My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power… — William Wordsworth
• Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke
• Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer. — Heraclitus
• When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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