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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Sight Quotes , Years 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
  • The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Art 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Light Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Our World 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sight Quotes