Alain de Botton Quotes, Sight Quotes, Hints Quotes

A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

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If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Sight Quotes

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sight Quotes , Genius Quotes

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sight Quotes

And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare; Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Sight Quotes

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Light Quotes , Sight Quotes

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Sight Quotes , Consciousness Quotes

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Country Quotes , Sight Quotes

Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.

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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Sight Quotes

Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.

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Tags : A. C. Dixon Quotes , Sight Quotes , Christ On The Cross Quotes

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sight Quotes , Feet Quotes

We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

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Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

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Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Sight Quotes

For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.

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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death Quotes , Sight Quotes