Plato Quotes, Holy Ground Quotes, Sight 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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Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

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Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

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

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Sight Quotes , Delight Quotes

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

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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

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

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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

The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Flower 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.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Light Quotes , Sight Quotes

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

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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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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

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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sight Quotes , Feet Quotes

And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare; Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.

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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Children Quotes , Sight Quotes

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Sight Quotes

Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Children Quotes , Sight Quotes