Quotes with senses

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  • Buddha Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bodhidharma Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • William Butler Yeats Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Helen Keller But of the senses, I am sure that sight must be the most delightful.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Helen Keller Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Helen Keller Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Helen Keller Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Denis Diderot We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.''
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Virginia Woolf Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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