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Tag Name "Sharpens" (45)

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Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
Samuel Rutherford
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Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.
Ed Helms
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As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another
Tim Tebow
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There is too much talk and gossip pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
Edgar Degas
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor
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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
Epictetus
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Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.
William J. Clinton
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
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Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
Hugh Jackman
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Your energy and your awareness are directly connected. If your energies are intense, your awareness naturally grows and sharpens.
Jaggi Vasudev
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.
John Ruskin
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Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.
Lord Chesterfield
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Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
Mason Cooley
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Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
Og Mandino
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
Philip Larkin
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Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred it spurs the will like ambition it intoxicates like wine.
Amelia B. Edwards
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A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.
R. D. Laing
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You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
Baltasar Gracian
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Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.
Remy de Gourmont
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It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.
Brian Henson
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
Robert Genn
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Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.
Claudia Gray
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Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.
Samuel Reshevsky
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