Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Eye Quotes, Islands Quotes

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

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I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Glasses Quotes

it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Stars Quotes , Eye Quotes

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

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

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Heart Quotes , Eye Quotes

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

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Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

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Tags : Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes , Eye Quotes , Media 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

A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.

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