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Eye Quotes by Mark Twain
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of…
- One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
- It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as…
- It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any…
- Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
- This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the…
- To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and…
- If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish…
- ...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or…
- The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time…
- The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
- From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to…
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick…
- If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then…
- You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots…
- The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the…
- The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful…
- Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his…
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- One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- If what you see by the eye doesn't please you, then close your eyes and see from the heart. Because the heart… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and… — James A. Baldwin
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is… — Henry David Thoreau
- A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely reminded of… — Cassandra Clare