Victor Hugo Quotes, Sight Quotes, Bishops Quotes

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

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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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Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

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Things seen are mightier than things heard.

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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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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

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Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.

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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

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The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

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In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

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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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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.

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We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

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Tags : Alan Gussow Quotes , Sight Quotes , Smell Quotes

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

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Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

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But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

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