#undergo

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#consciousness #heroic #our #ourselves #own

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#country #duty #establish #great #here

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America. ↗

— John James Audubon

#again #although #america #beloved #bodies

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being #degeneration #fatty #his #man

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. ↗

— George Savile

#difficulty #must #prince #trusting #undergo

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. ↗

— George Washington

#appellation #before #entitled #friendship #growth

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cause #course #events #influence #least