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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. - Charles Caleb Colton I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye. - Eliza Cook Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace. - Richard Crashaw Eyes, that displaces The neighbor diamond, and out-faces That sun-shine by their own sweet graces. - Richard Crashaw, Wishes--To his (Supposed) Mistress Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise. - Dante ("Dante Alighieri"), Paradiso (XVIII, 21) Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.] - Dante ("Dante Alighieri"), Purgatorio (XXXII, 31) Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes. - Sir William D'Avenant In one soft look what language lies! - Charles Dibdin With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. - Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ch. VIII) And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation. - Dr. John Donne, The Ecstacy My life lies in those eyes which have me slain. - William Drummond (1), Sonnet XXIX (l. 14) These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes (first week, sixth day) The love light in your eye. - Countess Lady Helen Selina Sheridan Dufferin, Irish Emigrant Dear eyes!--do not my heart forsake, Shine, like the stars within the lake,-- Shine, and the darksome shadows break. - Augustine J.H. Dugane And eyes disclosed what eyes alone could tell. - Timothy Dwight A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Mill on the Floss (bk. V, ch. XIV) One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. - Ralph Waldo Emerson An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life--Behavior 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 no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life--Behavior Displaying page 3 of 10 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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