Charles Dickens Quotes, Character Quotes, Eye Quotes

He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itself in spite of him.

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The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Eye Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Eye Quotes , Animal Quotes

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Eye Quotes , Perception Quotes

Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Lying Quotes , Eye Quotes

I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Eye Quotes

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

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Tags : Abraham Kuyper Quotes , Eye Quotes , Yield Quotes

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Life Quotes , Eye Quotes

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Lying Quotes , Eye Quotes

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

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Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Eye Quotes , Quiet Quotes

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Eye Quotes , Discovery Quotes

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Eye Quotes , Science Quotes

At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes

You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.

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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Eye Quotes , Hints Quotes