Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
AESOP Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
AESOP Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow
AESOP Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.
CANDACE BUSHNELL Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he ado...
VITRUVIUS If you beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neigh...
MARK TWAIN Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
DEMOSTHENES Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
DEMOSTHENES Beware lest clamor be taken for counsel.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it
ELIZABETH BOWEN Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting
BURMESE PROVERB Beware the person with nothing to lose
ITALIAN PROVERB The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after ...
BIBLE Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substa...
UTPAL VAISHNAV Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get y...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get y...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.
CHRIS CRUTCHER Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by h...
FRANK HERBERT Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
ALEXANDER POPE Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light...
SHAKTI GAWAIN Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring
substance is within.
W.E.CHANNING Beware of one who has nothing to lose.
ITALIAN PROVERB I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that f...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Beware when stirring waters unknown, for Poseidon is a fierce God.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot de...
BIBLE Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with ...
BIBLE Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the ...
LEIGH BARDUGO One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be...
JEAN RHYS Beware of mothers who have nothing left to lose.
AMY GOODMAN Take care, lest you lose a male who'll desire only you - and gain a male who'll desire only others.
KRESLEY COLE You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
ROBERT BROWNING As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substa...
EZRA CORNELL Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
ANGELA DAVIS Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
ANGELA Y. DAVIS I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED TENNYSON Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'
ANGELA DAVIS Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arriv...
ISAAC WATTS If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.
ARISTOTLE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
LA FONTAINE When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When in darkness, you lose your o...
ZAIN BALOCH There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho...
T.S. ELIOT I think they'll (the Fed) move at the meeting but I think the market is grasping at any straws you c...
CHUCK HILL Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Be...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner o...
A.A. MILNE Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.
KATE HARPER When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When you are in darkness, you los...
ZAIN BALOCH What are you smiling at?”
I whirled, peering into the gloom. The Darkling’s voice se...
LEIGH BARDUGO Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of t...
DEE HOCK You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
JOHN LITHGOW How people started to disappear??
It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% su...
DEYTH BANGER Beware; satan visits you by the noises of negatively minded people. Hear, but don't act on it!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Beware of laugh at and laugh with; the only people who laugh at you are the ones who pretend to laug...
VIKRANT PARSAI Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
BARBARA ANGELIS You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to ...
SUSAN CHEEVER Thoughts not considered positive by masses even at times become the shadow of one's great motivation...
ANUJ SOMANY In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
UNKNOWN Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
WILLIAM FEATHER When we (the soul, the metaphysical body complex – our eternal being) discard the physical/ chemic...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as fail...
BENNY GOODMAN The Ass and His Shadow
A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. The
day being int...
AESOP Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...
BUDDHA Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware th...
CATHERINE FISHER At the Olympics, you have almost nothing to lose, but at the Olympic trials, you have everything to ...
CATE CAMPBELL All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
MICKEY ROURKE Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
DAVID WONG Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
NINA DE GRAMONT It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
ANITA BROOKNER Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
JEWISH PROVERB Let the wind blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow,
Let the stars fall, lad
we'll answer ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...
BUDDHA Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. ...
BUDDHA Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. ...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about hi...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as ...
BENNY GOODMAN You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back. So never hold back cause it could be the ...
CRYSTAL DAWN SHEPHERD Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
WILLIAM FEATHER Don't love the things you own, lest they own you.
UNKNOWN By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
JOSHUA LEDERBERG
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