Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Sight Quotes

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

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One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

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Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

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Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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Things seen are mightier than things heard.

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The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.

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The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

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We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

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