"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of……" — Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."
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42 Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins has 42 quotes on this site.
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This…
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We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host
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What you look at hard seems to look at you.
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Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
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Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that…
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The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in…
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What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we…
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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time…
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Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of…
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But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew…
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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
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More Apprehension Quotes
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
— Alexander Pope
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
— Karl Barth
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is…
— Susan Sontag
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
— William Wordsworth
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
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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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