#penetrate

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

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I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#i #iron #loose #palestine #penetrated

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. ↗

— Kate Chopin

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Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel. ↗

— Thomas Kincade

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