Ovid Quotes, Sight Quotes, Sea Quotes

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Morning Quotes , Sight Quotes

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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Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Sight Quotes , Focus Quotes

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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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Science Quotes , Sight Quotes

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Light Quotes , Sight Quotes

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Country Quotes , Sight Quotes

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Sight Quotes

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sight Quotes

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

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We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

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Tags : Alan Gussow Quotes , Sight Quotes , Smell Quotes

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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Tags : A. E. Waite Quotes , Sight Quotes , Acting Quotes

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Sight Quotes , Consciousness Quotes

At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Morning Quotes , Sight Quotes

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death Quotes , Sight Quotes

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Book Quotes , Sight Quotes