Laozi Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Sight Quotes

...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

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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

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

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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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Sight Quotes

The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

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Tags : A. V. Dicey Quotes , Sight Quotes , Evil Quotes

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

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Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Morning Quotes , Sight Quotes

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

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

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

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Sight Quotes

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , Sight Quotes

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Eye 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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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Brother Quotes , Sight Quotes

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sight Quotes , Long 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

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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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sight Quotes , Bishops 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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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sight Quotes , Experience Quotes

Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Angel Quotes , Sight Quotes

The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Party Quotes , Sight Quotes

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes