Lord Byron Quotes, Brother Quotes, Sight Quotes

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

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When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sight Quotes

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

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A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

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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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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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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Sight Quotes , Sea Quotes

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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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

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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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

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

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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

He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.

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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.

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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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Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Cat Quotes , Sight Quotes

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

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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