Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
As contact with the enemy draws nearer, anticipation sharpens into fear. Its physical effects are striking. The heart beats rapidly, the face shines with sweat and the mouth grows dry - so dry that men often emerge from battle with blackened mouths and chapped lips.
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
An enlightening pastime is to make a list of favorite things that impact the senses. Not only does it provide a challenging exercise for the mind and memory, but it sharpens our appreciation of these golden moments in time. For example, one person's list of ten favorite sounds a distant train whistle a mother talking to her new baby the scrunch of leaves on a bright autumn day seagulls crying a hound baying in the woods at night the absolute silence of a mountain lake at sunset a crackling fire on a bitter day a stadium crowd singing the national anthem the screech of an airplane's tires as they touch down his wife's voice at morning. Try the exercise for favorite sounds, smells or sights. You may learn something about yourself.
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart.
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficu.
Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
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