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“Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.”

Long Eye Fashion Evidence Ridiculous Decent Civilized Customs Jury Apparel

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.”

Ifs Firsts Soul Eye Sin Late Observation Thee Poison Too Late Unseen Venom

Author:Francis Quarles

“I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.”

Thinking Two Eye Realizing Hours Hair Wake Up Magazines Bags Makeup Plus Pimples Cindy Hair And Makeup Retouching

Author:Cindy Crawford

“... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.”

Has Beens Eye Emotion Impossible Produce Taught Involved Mouths Thirty Muscles Wrinkles Register Starlets Halibut

Author:Jean Kerr

“I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.”

Stills Eye Language Weapons Teeth Ran Revealing Thrust Grind Ratios Racks

Author:Robin Morgan

“A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.”

Ifs Eye Father White Forget Pay Marriage Vision Arms Husband Resources Dating Lovely Clever Carrie Compliment Sail Mistress Surveys Manly Aisle Surrogates New Father

Author:Germaine Greer

“The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.”

Men Eye Earth Objects Injustice Oppression Respectable Poorest Contending Injustice And Oppression

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.”

God Eye

Author:Edmund Burke

“But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.”

Eye Names Fame

Book:The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc

Source: The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc

“The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.”

Men Eye Feet Ugliness Squinting

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.”

Way Looks I Can Different Eye Wanted Felt Talking Disappear My Way Packs Different Times Public Eye

Author:Amy Grant

“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”

Home Hands Eye Justice Honor Gold Shining Righteous Mansions

Author:Aeschylus

“Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.”

Heart Eye Heaven Tongue

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.”

Want Wells Eye Care Taken Strive His Eyes Dislike Recalls Complaints Strife Discontent Fasting Malcontent

Author:Joseph Hall

“What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.”

Ifs Men Years Humans Eye Hundred Eight Beast His Eyes Execution Death Penalty Avert Love Death

Book:Fanny

Source: Fanny

“Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.”

Source: This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One

“I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.”

Long Eye Hair Be Good Necks Equipment Ostriches

Author:Bette Davis

“It is sad To see the light of beauty wane away, Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness; But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone, To lose hope, care not for the coming thing, And feel all things go to decay within us.”

Knows Feels Heart Light Eye Care Loses Gone Feet Losing Spring All Things Decay Limbs Bosoms Lilies

Author:Philip James Bailey

“I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.”

World Wells Looks Might Eye This World Empty Tired Look Up Ennui

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.”

Men Needs Eye Form Faith Sky Bears Passing Passings Uplifting Knees Crow Specks True Faith

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.”

Heart Eye Remember Pleasure Tears Shed

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.”

Children Eye My Own Saws Bigger Intelligent Observers Biased Small Child Affectionate

Author:Margaret Mead

“I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.”

Eye Values Loses Perfect Blessing Denied Resignation

Author:Jane Austen

“For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.”

Soul Body Light Eye Language Pure Difficulty Raises Clouds Heavy Sensuality Virtuous Flash Lightning Vapor Darts Dank

Author:Plutarch

“The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.”

Source: The Stones of Venice

“All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.”

Men Way Persons Has Beens Feelings Eye Fall Taught Originality Observing Plagiarism

Author:John Ruskin

“The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.”

Ifs Humans Eye Lines Expression Depends Painter Variation Countenance

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in their thoughts and imaginations at least) to face any kind of suffering when motivated by noble aims like the vague and tremendous concept of freedom ... Or, in their humility (or sloth - who knows?) men are quite willing to leave decisions to others 'who know more about it than we do.”

Knows Men Trying Kind War Eye Faces Suffering Imagination Decision Humility Willing Involved Terrible Succeed Concepts Aim Noble Motivated Know Me Vague Sloth Stop War

Author:Dorothy Day

“Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.”

Eye Found Born Chance Politician Easier Comfort Argument Conviction

Book:The Old Dominion Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow: The Miller of Old Church

Source: The Old Dominion Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow: The Miller of Old Church

“[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.”

Might Eye Species Reform Reformers

Book:The Descendant

Source: The Descendant

“True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.”

Eye Heaven Goodness Shining Worms Glow Worms

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

“There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.”

Eye Judgment Instinct Intuition There Comes A Time

Book:A RELATIVE STRANGER\

Source: A RELATIVE STRANGER\

“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes - She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”

“I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.”

Seems Eye Impossible Whales Unbelievers

Book:Green Dolphin Country

Source: Green Dolphin Country

“The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.”

Men Soul Eye Passion Color Prejudice Appearance Observation Yellow Jaundice

Author:Isaac Watts

“The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.”

Humans May Eye Age Action Human Beings Months Significance Fifteen Sympathetic

Book:Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children

Source: Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children

“For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.”

Soul Self Light Eye Speak Clear Air Feet Expression Ears Dear Loud Grass Organs Sole Mud Carpet Self Expression Residents Scorned Asphalt

Author:Barbara Holland

“A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.”

Soul Eye Spiritual Spirit Pieces Creatures Draws Sight Delight Excited Ethical Looking Good Crude Scenery Nutrients

Author:Barbara Holland

“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.”

“To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.”

Should Eye Understanding Walks Behinds Spine

Author:Rod McKuen

“By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.”

“Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.”

Eye Causes Disease Forgiveness Sight Train Endless Liver Arteries

Book:The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More

Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More

“You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.”

Thinking Heart Sometimes Enough Eye Mistake Broken Sock

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.”

Feels Trying Home Eye Lasts Figures Objects Building Please Comfortable Adults Filling Acquiring Things Building A Home

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.”

Writing Done Eye Office Boxes Box Office

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.”

People Knows Way Writing Book Reason Eye Life Is Rooms Written Style Ears Reason Why Sentiments Good Book Vacuums Employing

Book:The collected works of Walter Bagehot

Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot

“The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.”

Eye Ears Witness Trustworthy

Author:Herodotus

“bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!”

Men Whole Eye Age Lasts Powerful Opinion Generations Broken Balls Breaths Shining Bubbles Deceiving Cannons

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.”

Children Eye Faces Form Grows Growing Up Dying Blue Revenge Cake Pale Forbidden Castles Rice Baking Pudding Birthday Cake Raisins Horseshoes Rice Pudding

Author:Julia Child

“Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.”

People Eye Excellent Mediocrity Mediocre

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

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