"Conceive of" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to conceive of a life more suitable to the fostering of the imagination than that which little Hans was leading. Besides the play-house, and the scraps of dramas read to him by his father, himself a strange and dreamy man, we catch sight of an old grandmother, she who resided in the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... As soon as April 2, she writes, "Our school continues to prosper, and I love the children exceedingly. Do pray that God will bless this incipient step to enlighten the women of this country. You cannot conceive of their deplorable ignorance. I feel it more and more every day. Their energies are expended in outward adorning of plaiting the hair and gold and pearls and costly array, literally so. I close with one request, that you will pray for a ...
— The Women of the Arabs • Henry Harris Jessup
... into her eyes, her hand still in mine, conscious that her cheeks were flushing. It was impossible for me to conceive of ...
— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish
... any part. Men paid him wages for work, and so helped to feed and clothe him; but he never exchanged opinions with them. He was so simply and naturally humble—if he can be called humble who never aspires—that humility was no distinct quality in him, nor could he conceive of it. Wiser men were demigods to him. If you told him that such a one was coming, he did as if he thought that anything so grand would expect nothing of himself, but take all the responsibility on itself, ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau
... highest and noblest of all human ideals. I cannot conceive of a good man who does not recognise that when he once understands it. The Anarchical Communists simply seek that men should live in peace and concord, of their own better nature, without being forced, doing harm to none, and being harmed by ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller
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