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Sight Quotes
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us. (Quote by - Francesco Guicciardini)
And for to se, and eek for to be seye. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
Faith is nothing at all tangible. It is simply believing God; and like sight, it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight, as to look inside to discover whether you have faith. (Quote by - Hannah Whitall Smith)
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne. (Quote by - John Hay)
The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde, The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne. (Quote by - Barnaby Googe)
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. (Quote by - John Milton)
A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head (Quote by - and there is London Town. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. (Quote by - Bible)
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black--nor white so very white. (Quote by - George Canning)
I have prayed in her fields of poppies, I have laughed with the men who died (Quote by - But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands, In the battle's glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand. (Quote by - Gordon Johnstone)
The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see. (Quote by - Sir John Denham)
Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. (Quote by - John Milton)