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  • But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Strong Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Morning Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Children Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. O. Scott Quotes , Eye Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Eye Quotes , Past Quotes
  • I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Greatness Quotes
  • The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Eye Quotes , Color Quotes
  • We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Genius Quotes
  • I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs whatsoever of weakness or tenderness. The free and magnificent predator must once again glint from their eyes.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Pain Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Pain Quotes , Eye Quotes