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Source: The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): Annabel Lee, Ligeia, The Sphinx, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

“Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?”

Form Sound Voice Darkness Ears Distance Clouds Loud Musings

Book:Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales

Source: Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales

“I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.”

Feels Artist Cutting Doors Ears Nails

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.”

Men May Stones Ears Flattery Jugs

Author:Samuel Johnson

“We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.”

Knows Way Giving Mean Self Seems Eye Earth Heaven Wish Wise Blood Worst Sorrow Highest Ears Islam Flesh Denial Vain Resignation Flesh And Blood God Is Great

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.”

Poor Ears Dear

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.”

Eye Youth Ears Offensive Threshold

Author:Juvenal

“Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]”

Littles Ears Hearing Wide Pitcher

Author:George Herbert

“Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]”

Eye Ears Discreet

Author:George Herbert

“When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears; A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, Just as the sapience of an author's brain, Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.”

World Lying Names Brain Dangerous Thousand Safe Taxes Ears Crowds Invention Satire Gathering Scandal Toss

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author

“I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.”

Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.”

Long Broken Honor Ears Tales Noses Ancestor Boast Monument Ancestry Descent Forged Broken Images

Book:The Complete Plays: The alchemist. Catline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. The devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The light heart. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepard; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Glossary

Source: The Complete Plays: The alchemist. Catline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. The devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The light heart. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepard; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Glossary

“And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.”

May Light Eye Heaven Religious Clear Mines Window Ears Blow Ecstasy Organs Sweetness Casting Choir Anthem

Author:John Milton

“One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.”

Problem School Certain Hurt Silence Ears Hearing Noise Loud Bells Sensitivity Dentist Sensory Drills Loud Noises

Author:Temple Grandin

“The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]”

Men Mind Fear Danger He Man Glory Ears Terror Vain Gloria

Author:Sallust

“The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.”

Men Needs Giving Feels Mind Doe Reason Enough Earth Wonder Circumstances Ears Independent Ill Noise Reports Trifles Cannons Greatest Man

Book:Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

Source: Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

“My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.”

Writing Book Stories Sound Voice My Own Ears Trusted Making Changes

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.”

Ifs Born Evidence Ears Musical Intellect Seeds Sophistication

Book:Only One Year

Source: Only One Year

“There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.”

Ifs Mouths Ears Slander

Book:Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author

Source: Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author

“The belly has no ears.”

Ears Belly Gluttony

Author:Plutarch

“Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.”

Thinking Trying Mind Practice Ears

Book:Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai

Source: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai

“one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.”