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“This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.”

Men Firsts Humans Sometimes Hands Eye Faces Suffering Born Atheism Tears His Eyes Slips Cheeks Glances Futility Weariness Pathos Human Suffering Unconcerned Being Old Futility Of Life

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.”

Firsts Looks Eye Fairs Golf Notion Opponents His Eyes Measuring Tees Appraisal

Author:Bobby Jones

“What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.”

Knows Needs Trying Firsts Eye Kids Walks Brain Mad Library Censorship

Author:Stephen King

“Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.”

Firsts Looks Has Beens Eye Mirrors Shining Where You Are Where You Are Going

Author:Charles Ghigna

“When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!”

Men Firsts Looks Littles Has Beens Stills Eye Young Courses Stars Space Clear Records Generations Tears Remains Shining Silent Pity Serene Shepherds Noisy Sirius Orion

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.”

Firsts Eye Turns Heaven Glory First Time

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.”

Firsts Stills Real Eye Pleasure Brain Knowing Taken Seeing Honest Wall Travel Shoes Senses Rome Organs Masterpiece Leather Exhaustion Through The Eyes Jaded Sobbing Infatuated

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.”

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield

“The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.”

Needs Mind Firsts Home Eye Lasts Saws Sight Blind Trade Fortune Rate Seeking Mechanic Stay At Home Coquette

Book:Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

Source: Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

“Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.”

Firsts Humans Persons I Can Stories Eye Mother Reading Voice Lines My Own Sentences Inward

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“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

“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

“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.”

Source: The Poems

“In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore: The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through nature at a single view: A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bounds, was something more.”

Firsts Looks Kind Soul Hands Eye Turns Views Wonder Sea Land Taught Masters Genius Scene Skills Bounds Various Noble Passing Passings Sat His Eyes Seats Bores Globes Obedient Robes Wildness Wands

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“First, there is the person one thinks he is and the appearance one thinks he has. Then there is the thing one actually is, and there is that which the others think, and here a myriad-faced being arose in her thought, but the second came back as being more difficult to know, for what eyes would see it and where would it stay?”

Thinking Knows Firsts Persons Eye Difficult Appearance

Author:Elizabeth Madox Roberts

“If it's the first kiss, it's important for the eyes to be closed so you know it's real. It's almost like a Disney movie!”

Ifs Knows Firsts Important Real Eye Kissing First Kiss

Author:Joe Jonas

“All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you emerge, your friends, embracing you, will exclaim: 'Your eyes! Your eyes have changed!' And not one of your tormentors will be able to bear your scrutiny. They will turn away from it, like beaten dogs.”

“Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.”

Knows Firsts Eye Death Lying Hours Dark Planets Lovers Finals Paradise His Eyes

Author:Gwendolyn MacEwen

“You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.”

Firsts Humans Eye Strong Understanding Views Painting Drama Scene First Time Reactions Behave Evoke Human Eyes

Author:Mike Svob

“Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.”

Mind Firsts Eye Lying Sleep Bed Ill Laziness Idle Cages Desertion

Author:Frances Osborne

“The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said: "You are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.”

“For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.”

Way Firsts Eye Red Noses Fake Cried Aisle Eyelashes Swollen

Author:Sherri Shepherd

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