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11 Quotes for 'Blindness' in the Database.
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Blindness Quotes
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Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the
blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. XV, v. 14)
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Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light,
Which I must ne'er enjoy?
What are the blessings of the sight?
Oh, tell your poor blind boy!
Author: Colley Cibber
Source: The Blind Boy
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None so blind as those that will not see.
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
Source: Commentaries (Jeremiah, XX)
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Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore;
Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XVII, l. 730), (Pope's translation)
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
Author: John Milton
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 67)
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O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of day.
Author: John Milton
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 80)
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These eyes, tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot,
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year,
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.
Author: John Milton
Source: Sonnet XXII (l. 1)
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I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes
. . . I really do not see the signal!
Author: Lord Horatio Nelson
Source: Life of Nelson (ch. 7), at the battle of Copenhagen
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He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at I, i)
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Polite Conversation (dialogue III)
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And when a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew
Soul-animating strains--alas! too few.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, Pt. II, Scorn Not the Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned
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