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Eye Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to…
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
- [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all…
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
- Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned…
- The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause,…
- The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings…
- Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
- ‎Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see.
- Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he…
- All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every…
- But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye…
More Eye Quotes
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — 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
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila