#enlarge

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#art #being #civic #enlargement #experience

And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare. ↗

— Theodore William Schultz

#capital #choice #debase #did #enhance

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#brave #courage #cowardice #dangers #desperate

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

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#commerce #domains #enlarged #equal #equal justice

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

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. ↗

— Socrates

#beauty #delight #enlarge #his #kind

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia. ↗

— John Woolman

#back #carefully #concern #discipline #enlargement

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#always #announcement #desires #discover #eager