Virginia Woolf Quotes, Spring Quotes, Eye Quotes

I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

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Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.

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For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

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Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.

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

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Eye Quotes , Artist Quotes

A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Children Quotes , Eye Quotes

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.

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If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

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Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

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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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The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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