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Eye Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
- Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done…
- Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the…
- Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
- Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as…
- The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are…
- When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which…
- Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
- Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
- No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
- The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
- Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
- It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
- Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
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- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
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