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Eyes Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
- It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.
- Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
- You never know how you look through other people's eyes.
- Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question…
- Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds…
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
- A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of…
- We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not…
- As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me…
- A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
- Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should…
- THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with…
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
- Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then…
- Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for…
- We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and...…
- There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
- But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
- Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would…
- The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is…
- Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.
- It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
- There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
- A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,…
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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
- 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
- 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
- Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors,… — Teresa of Avila
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. — Abu Bakr