| When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. -- Sara Teasdale |
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Teasdale, SaraEra:
1884 |
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| Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. -- Horace |
| Author:
HoraceEra:
-65 |
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| The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory. -- Edmund Burke |
| Author:
Burke, EdmundEra:
1729 |
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| That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes. -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author:
Franklin, BenjaminEra:
1706 |
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| What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. -- Robert G. Ingersoll |
| Author:
Ingersoll, Robert G.Era:
1833 |
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| The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. -- Heraclitus |
| Author:
HeraclitusEra:
-535 |
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| When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child? -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men, Proud of their vain learning, go round and round Like the blind led by the blind. Far beyond Their eyes, hypnotized by the world of sense, Opens the way to immortality. -- Upanishads |
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UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| The eye sees what it brings the power to see. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author:
Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice re- viewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turn-ed aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What haveI left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. -- William Cowper |
| Author:
Cowper, WilliamEra:
1731 |
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| If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D. |
| Author:
Fuller, ThomasEra:
1654 |
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| War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. -- Le Gallienne |
| Author:
Le GallienneEra:
1866 |
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| If the thoughts are absolutely tranquil the heavenly heart can be seen. The heavenly heart lies between sun and moon (i.e. between the two eyes). It is the home of the inner light. To make light circulate is the deepest and most wonderful secret. The light is easy to move, but difficult to fix. If it is made to circulate long enought, then it crystallizes itself; that is the natural spirit body... -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power. -- Jeremy Taylor |
| Author:
Taylor, JeremyEra:
1613 |
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| An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. -- Cato the Elder |
| Author:
Cato the ElderEra:
-234 |
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| O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her. -- Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| Tears are the noble language of the eye. -- Robert Herrick |
| Author:
Herrick, RobertEra:
1591 |
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| The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo |
| Author:
Cardozo, Benjamin N.Era:
1870 |
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| He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter |
| Author:
Peter, Laurence J.Era:
1919 |
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| He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes. -- Juvenal |
| Author:
JuvenalEra:
60 |
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| Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. -- Francis Palgrave |
| Author:
Palgrave, FrancisEra:
1824 |
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| The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. -- Aldous Huxley |
| Author:
Huxley, AldousEra:
1894 |
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| Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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