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“Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.”

Ifs Firsts Two Character Waiting Lines Fine Glances

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.”

Firsts Made Humanity Simple Interesting Mankind Inspired Details Forests Glances Statues Examination Lively Cathedrals

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.”

Want Firsts Shows Eye Rooms Impression Glances Entering First Impression Impressionism

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.”

Writing Firsts Looks May Hard Glances

Book:Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

Source: Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon

“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”

Firsts Stills Order Risk Share Fool Genius Sitting Wheels Glances Brilliance Sitting Still

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.”

People Firsts Appearance Stations Glances Breeding Exalted Good Breeding

Author:Anton Chekhov