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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him. — Arthur Schopenhauer
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would… — James Whistler
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything.… — Laozi
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter? — William Shakespeare
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not… — George Orwell
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the… — Charles Dickens
He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention… — Samuel Johnson
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite… — Thomas Carlyle
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware. — Robert Browning
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails… — Dalai Lama
Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his… — John Bunyan
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. — George Herbert
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. — William Cowper
Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor. — Alexander Pope
If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the… — Homer
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin
The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter… — Vincent Van Gogh
We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what… — John Cage
One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat]… — Claude Monet

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