Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Sight Quotes

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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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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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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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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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sight Quotes , Two Quotes

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sight Quotes , Vegetarian Diet Quotes

As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Sight Quotes , Mind Quotes

In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

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Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Sight Quotes , Smell Quotes

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

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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.

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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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Morning Quotes , Sight Quotes

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

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One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

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

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Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Men Quotes , Sight Quotes

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Believe Quotes , Sight Quotes