#peril

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#being #being judged #judged #life #lived

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bring #fraternity #great #light #perils

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Athanasius

#escaping #fellowship #god #heaven #judgment

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#falling #honors #peril #puff #world

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

#gathering #greatest #grief #grieve #i

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ↗

— Confucius

#learning #lost #perilous #thought #without

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. ↗