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Separation isn't time or distance it's the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords
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De tant comme femmes ont le corps plus delie que les hommes, plus foible et moins habille a plusieurs choses faire, de tant ont elles l'entendement plus a delivre et plus agu ou elles s'appliquent. Just as women's bodies are more delicate than men's, weaker and less able for many things, so, where they apply themselves, their understanding is freer and sharper.
Christine de Pisan— 1405 Le livre de la Cite des Dames, bk.1, ch.27.
The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten it or slow it down. Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.
léon foucault— On his pendulum experiment, as quoted in Pendulum : Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science (2003) by Amir D. Aczel
God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.
hannibal— As quoted by Livy, in Ab urbe condita Book XXI, 44, as translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt, in The War with Hannibal (1965)
Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.
alexander maclaren— P. 607. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And before him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
paul of tarsus— Hebrews 4:12-13, as quoted in
His poetry may be divided into comic extravaganza on the one hand, and more personal work on the other. There is no one like him in the world in the former genre; as a "light poet" he is preferable to John Betjeman – as fluent in traditional forms, his work is never vitiated by refuge in the poetical or high sentimental, and his choice of words is subtler, funnier and altogether sharper. In his other vein Plomer is fastidious, reticent, elegant and the author of some memorable and moving lines.
william plomer— Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975) vol. 1, p. 389.
The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.
theodore roethke— "The Light Comes Brighter," ll. 1-2
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
william shakespeare— Lear, Act I, scene iv.
I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago...in order to be pushed to one side when great international decisions call to be made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever, and I am not prepared to let that happen. It is my duty and privilege to employ to this end without hesitation the most appropriate and, if need be, the sharper methods.
— Speech at the launching of the battleship Wittelsbach (3 July 1900), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), pp. 158-159.
Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.
rollo may— Ch 2 : The Nature of Creativity, p. 49
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. No doubt there are usually more and sharper quarrels between parents and children, than between masters and slaves; yet it advances not the art of household management to change a father's right into a right of property, and count children but as slaves. Slavery, then, and not peace, is furthered by handing, over the whole authority to one man.
— Baruch Spinoza, in Political Treatise (1677), Tractatus Politicus as translated by A. H. Gosset (1883), Ch. 6, On Monarchy - Alternate site (this is an unfinished work, left incomplete by Spinoza's death).
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes (1918) page 19
'Tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
— William Shakespeare, "Pisanio" in Cymbeline, Act III, scene 4, line 35.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother.
john gay— John Gay, Fables (1727), Part I, Fable 10.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
— Beaumont and Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune, Act II, scene 2, line 1.
How, sir! not damn the sharper, but the dice?
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue II, line 13.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
john gay— John Gay, The Elephant and the Bookseller, line 74.
Being heartbroken doesn’t mean you stop feeling. Just the opposite — it means you feel it all more. With your heart in fragments, every sensation is sharper, every emotion more acute. Your feelings are enhanced, like a blind man with an impeccable sense of smell, or a deaf woman whose eyes can perceive things a normal person would never recognize. The brokenhearted are the best empaths of all.
Julie Johnson— Erasing Faith (2014)
God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.
— As quoted by Livy, in Ab urbe condita Book XXI, 44, as translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt, in The War with Hannibal (1965)
'Tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world.
— Pisanio, scene iv
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!
— Lear, Scene IV
Do not be jealous of your sister. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs. Colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
neil gaiman— "Instructions", first published in A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (2000) edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
