Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Eye Quotes, Dark Quotes

If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

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Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Eye Quotes , World Quotes

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Death Quotes , Eye Quotes

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Stars Quotes , Eye Quotes

Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Rain Quotes , Eye Quotes

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

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To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

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And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Eye Quotes

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Eye Quotes , Giving Quotes

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Eye Quotes , Soul Quotes

O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Eye Quotes , Dear Ones Quotes