#harp

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#lost #otherwise #pleasures #sharpens #small

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. ↗

— William Drummond

#scholar #sharpens

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

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Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

#get #need #off #pain #sharp

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#edges #leadership #necessarily #necessary #occasionally

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#delights #depends #everything #imagination #joy

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. ↗

— King Solomon

#friend #iron #sharpens

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose. ↗

— David Spade

#get #got #i #loose #myself

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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