Quotes with primrose-eyes

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Orwell The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Jean Dubuffet The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • James Russell Lowell The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • John Keble The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
    John Keble
    English poet (1792 - 1866)
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  • Edward Blishen The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • Michel Faber The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
    Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • James Baldwin There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • T. S. Eliot There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Auguste Rodin There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Robert Frost There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man - fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Felicia D. Hemans There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.
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  • William Zinsser There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ban Ki-moon This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
    Speech at Bali climate change conference (2007)
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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