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...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.
- Exodus 26:4
Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: ‘When you reach the edge of the waters, stand in the Jordan.’”
- Joshua 3:8
Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
- Joshua 3:15
He saw two boats at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.
- Luke 5:2
The winner's edge is in the attitude, not aptitude.
- John Maxwell
It is at the edge of intelligence that wisdom awaits.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always a danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fiber. The
- Theodore Roosevelt
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
- John F. Kennedy
He walked out on the beach to the edge of the light and stood with his clenched fists on top of his skull and fell to his knees sobbing in rage.
- Cormac McCarthy
But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.
- Wendell Berry
Here on the river I have known peace and beauty such as I never knew in any other place. There is always work here that I need to be doing and I have many worries, for life on the edge seems always threatening to go over the edge. But I am always surprised, when I look back on times here that I know to have been laborious or worrisome or sad, to discover that they were never out of the presence of peace and beauty, for here I have been always in the world itself.
- Wendell Berry