#enlarge

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

#around #away #coming #concealed #distant

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#enlargements #heard #made #new #something

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#candle #effect #enlarge #illustrate #love is

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. ↗

— William Bligh

#any #attempt #cape #considerable #considerably

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#art #audience #enlarge #enough #glass

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

#else #enlarge #expense #happen #objective

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#goal #guess #i #just #really

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#enlarged #forms #free #good #government

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#else #enlarge #everybody #everybody else #i