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  • The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Country Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Sight Quotes , Years Quotes
  • Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the long glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there, Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun, Or the sunbeams dart through them.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Sight Quotes , Long Quotes
  • The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Art Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Light Quotes , Sight Quotes