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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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Morning Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , School Quotes , Sight 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. R. Ammons Quotes , Sight Quotes , Events Quotes
  • In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Sight Quotes , Ohio Quotes
  • Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Men Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Faith Quotes , Sight Quotes