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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Danger
Aesop

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
Dishonesty
George Bancroft

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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
Faith
St. Bernard

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The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
Control
John Berry

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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
Goals
Robert Browning

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Ambition
Robert Browning

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Ah, but a mans reach should exceed his grasp,Or whats a heaven for?
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Robert Browning

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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Speakers and Speaking
Cato The Elder

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Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
Radicals
Angela Y. Davis

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Arts and Artists
Jean Dubuffet

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Faith
Mahatma Gandhi

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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Youth
Dame Mary Gilmore

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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Persuasion
Horace

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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Age and Aging
Doug Larson

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
Love
Samuel Osgood

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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
Students
Sir William Osler

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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Age and Aging
J. B. Priestley

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The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.
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Daniel Webster

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Mind
Colin Wilson

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.
Risk
George E. Woodberry

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Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Mao Zedong

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun