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  • Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone. -- Nadine Gordimer
  • Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. -- Irving Stone
  • In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. -- Stephen King
  • No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. -- William Shakespeare
  • Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union. -- Adam Weishaupt
  • A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face. -- William Wordsworth
  • Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge. -- Anne Catherine Emmerich
  • Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. -- Albert Einstein
  • Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights... -- James Madison
  • Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish. -- George Eliot
  • I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum. -- James Boswell
  • Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile. -- Irving Stone
  • The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel. -- Helen Keller
  • The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence. -- William James
  • Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business. -- Jeremy Collier
  • Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger. -- Eli Siegel
  • Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules. -- William Henry Bragg
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