Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Eye Quotes, Half Quotes

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

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I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Mean Quotes , Eye Quotes

She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertaiment in listening to the larks singing far and near; and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet, and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind, and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom, as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure. She was a happy creautre, and an angel in those those days. It is a pity she could not stay content.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Eye Quotes

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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

... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Eye Quotes , Kissing Quotes

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Eye Quotes , Light Quotes

Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye.

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

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Eye Quotes , Heaven Quotes

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

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There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Eye Quotes

That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Eye Quotes

Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his eyes. Onward! Onward! There is no time to care for name, or fame, or Mukti, or Bhakti! We shall look to these some other time. Now in this life let us infinitely spread his lofty character, his sublime life, his infinite soul. This is the only work - there is nothing else to do.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Lying Quotes , Eye Quotes

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sun Quotes

So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Nature Quotes , Eye Quotes

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes

Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Eye Quotes , Trying Quotes