Alexander Pope Quotes, Sight Quotes, Blue Quotes

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sight Quotes , Views 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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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sweet 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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death Quotes , Sight Quotes

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Life Quotes , Sight Quotes

The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Dark Quotes , Sight 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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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

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

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Tags : Adrienne Monnier Quotes , Sight Quotes , Perfect 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.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Sight Quotes , Ohio Quotes

In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Sight Quotes , Imagination Quotes

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

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I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

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Tags : Alain Resnais Quotes , New York 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.

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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

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Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'

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But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Believe Quotes , Sight Quotes

If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Sight Quotes

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Sight Quotes , Cities Quotes

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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