Blanche Quote by Edmund Burke

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One…

— Thomas Traherne

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

— George Gissing

“Those whose actions are forever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly,…

— Anne Brontë

“And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine A being breathing thoughtful breath A traveler betwixt life and death…

— William Wordsworth

“the unity of perfect meditative stability and knowledge is to rest right within profound knowledge's seeing that is without seeing anything and to do…

— Karl Brunnholzl

In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the…

— Isidore of Seville

“There is no sadness and no cruelty in that gaze; it is a gaze without adjectives, it is only, completely, a gaze which neither…

— Roland Barthes

“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a…

— Thomas Paine

You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind…

— Joyce DiDonato

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline that lucidity…

— María Dueñas