Adam Young Quotes, Sight Quotes, Firsts Quotes

I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.

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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sight Quotes , Experience Quotes

In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Sight Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sight Quotes , Midnight Quotes

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Sight Quotes , Profound Quotes

The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

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Tags : A. V. Dicey Quotes , Sight Quotes , Evil Quotes

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Sight Quotes , Smell Quotes

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sight Quotes

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Sight Quotes

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , Sight Quotes

We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

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Tags : Alan Gussow Quotes , Sight Quotes , Smell Quotes

As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Squares Quotes , Sight Quotes

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sight Quotes , Bishops Quotes

By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Brother Quotes , Sight Quotes

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sight Quotes , Long Quotes

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wine Quotes , Sight Quotes

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Sight Quotes , Sea Quotes

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

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Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Morning Quotes , Sight Quotes

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Sight Quotes

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Light Quotes , Sight Quotes