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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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

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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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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

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We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

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Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

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It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

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The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

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

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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the sight of me is good for sore eyes

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

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Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.

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