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• The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

  Lewis Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apprehension, Glimpse

• Much of today’s public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

  Lewis Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apprehension, Preoccupation

• He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

  Eugene Field

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  Tags in King, Apprehension

• If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

  George Berkeley

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in World, Human, Apprehension

• I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

  Donald Cargill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Submissiveness, Grieved, Apprehension

• We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph’s trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.

  Francis Parkman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apprehension, Supposed, Evident, Advance

• Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

  William Shenstone

  Tags in Uneasiness, Apprehension

• Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Apprehension, Spirit

• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Marcus Annaeus Seneca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things, Apprehension