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“If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. The hand of the woman in the crowd trembled as it was stretched toward Jesus, and the faith back of it was superstitiously reverent, trusting in the virtue of the robe, rather than in the One who wore it; yet the genuineness of that faith; feeble though it was, triumphed in God's loving sight. Real trust is real power, though the heart and hand be feeble.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.”

Reason Eye Numbers Sun Virtue Ought Envy Wounds Rays Velocity Insignificance

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.”

Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

“The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series

“I love to go and mingle with the young In the gay festal room--when every heart Is beating faster than the merry tune, And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.”

Heart Eye Beautiful Young Joy Rooms Gay Blue Dancing Rounds Lips Faster Tunes Cheeks Restless Merry Blue Eyes

Book:The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis

Source: The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis

“A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.”

Soul Eye Earth Remember Lost Angel Lit Lamps

Book:Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter

Source: Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter

“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”

Book Stories Hands Light Eye Age Left Pleasure Objects Please Fame Glory Conscious Dear Brilliant Wit Treasure Golden Rejoice Volume Sage Delicious Deceived Beam Rapture Musings

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Eyes that droop like summer flowers.”

Eye Flower Summer Summer Flower

Book:Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Source: Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.”

Heart Eye Dark Secret Dark Eyes

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.”

Eye Bears Priests

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.”

Doe Eye Faces House Doors One Day Ears Meetings Senses Indifferent Thrust Piety Puritan

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.”

World Mean Whole Moments Eye Reading Voice Imagination Ability Space Company Keys Ears Mere Saint Whole World All Time Fancy Finest Sage Time And Space Sweetest Wisest Wittiest

Book:Democracy and other Addresses

Source: Democracy and other Addresses

“What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.”

Men Love Wells Eye Values Pay Angel Gold Sake Rings Bread Worth It One Love Lure Touchstones Bread And Butter

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?”

“Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314

“Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.”

Wells Kind May Whole Hands Eye Able Views Objects Succeed Aim Distance Sticks Selfish Command Horizon Cunning Discretion

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.”

Art Made Light Eye Faces Given Sides Grace Air Hair Curious Made It Seats Touched Shade Organs Hung Brightness Ivory

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.”

Eye Regard Pity Innocence Folly Mirth

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.”

Shows Eye Ordinary Breeding Good Breeding

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.”

Eye Forever Greater Creation Degrees Drawing His Eyes Holiness Resemblance

Book:The evidences of the Christian religion: with additional discourses on the following subjects, viz: Of God, and his attributes. The power and wisdom of God in the creation. The providence of God. The worship of God. Advantages of revelation above natural reason. Excellency of the Christian institution. Dignity of the Scripture language. Against atheism and infidelity. Against the modern free-thinkers. Immortality of the soul, and a future state. Death and judgment

Source: The evidences of the Christian religion: with additional discourses on the following subjects, viz: Of God, and his attributes. The power and wisdom of God in the creation. The providence of God. The worship of God. Advantages of revelation above natural reason. Excellency of the Christian institution. Dignity of the Scripture language. Against atheism and infidelity. Against the modern free-thinkers. Immortality of the soul, and a future state. Death and judgment

“Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.”

Men Giving Eye Together Passion Hours Half Particular Casts Features Curse Eyebrows Countenance Scoundrels Physiognomy

Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

“It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.”

Eye Impossible Spots Rivalry

Book:The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;

Source: The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;

“The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.”

May Eye Accounts Enormous His Eyes Owners Exposed Elegant Deprived Discretion Stature Polyphemus

Author:Joseph Addison

“That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.”

Mind Seems Eye Passion House Common Fine Affection Seats Construction Introducing Portal

Author:Joseph Addison

“The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.”

Heart May Made Eye Affection Tongue Restraint Breeding Good Breeding

Author:Joseph Addison

“Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.”

Men Looks Eye Difficult Method Communicate Contact Chests Shyness Eye Contact Single Women

Author:Rita Rudner

“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”

“It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual relations. Physical love, so unjustifiably decried, makes everyone show, down to the least detail, all he has of goodness and self-sacrifice, so that he shines even in the eyes of those nearest to him.”

Love Persons Self Shows Eye Quality Moral Sacrifice Goodness Relation Shining Details Odd Admiration Self Sacrifice

Author:Marcel Proust

“Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.”

Done Eye Path Duty Goes On Trust In God Steadfast

Author:Martin Luther

“We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.”

Ifs Men World Years Hands Light Eye America Hope Fate Shame Golden Dust Resolve Trails Disgrace

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.”

Reality Eye Changed I Have Learned Learning To Trust

Author:Maya Angelou

“Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.”

Looks Eye Color Grew Waking Brighter

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.”

Eye Color Brighter

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry.”

Eye Sorry Joyous Musings

Book:A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Source: A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.”

People Made Book Character Eye Fire Creator Wit Command His Eyes Plot Throwing Handful Dickens Sharpening

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.”

Source: Dust tracks on a road

“Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]”

Eye Criticism Moles

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.”

Eye Difficult Lovers

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books-- I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.”

Looks Kind Book Eye Faces Given Grace Sweet Comfort Attractive Assurance Countenance

Author:Edmund Spenser

“For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.”

Eye Night Missing Mines Sight Separation Cheerful Joyous

Book:Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].

Source: Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].

“The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.”

Eye Form Lying Fairs Rounds Spread Herds Brows Clusters Panthers

Author:Ovid

“I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.”