Charles Dickens Quotes, Flower Quotes, Eye Quotes

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Eye Quotes , Body Quotes

He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Eye Quotes , Light Quotes

I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Eye Quotes , Simple Quotes

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Children Quotes , Eye Quotes

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Home Quotes , Eye Quotes

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Eye Quotes , Looks Quotes

Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.

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Tags : Adriana Trigiani Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Eye Quotes

I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.

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I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Mean Quotes , Eye Quotes

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Eye Quotes , Kissing Quotes