A Quote by Aesop

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

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Beware Grasping Lest Lose Shadow Substance

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Vitruvius

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

William Shakespeare

If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

John Dewey

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

Charles Caleb Colton

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Elizabeth Bowen

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

Jamie O'Neill

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

Demosthenes

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Demosthenes

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it

Shakti Gawain

May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.

David Livermore

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

Mark Twain

A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.