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His Eyes Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be…
- Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time…
- The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers…
More His Eyes Quotes
- The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. — Warren G. Bennis
- A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his… — Dorothea Kent
- Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight… — John Peter Altgeld
- Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye. — William Shakespeare
- A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of… — Martin Luther
- He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often… — Eric Hoffer
- To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake. — Aileen Fisher
- Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne