| 15 Blindness Quotes
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“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.”
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“There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.”
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“A blind man can see his mouth”
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“I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me”
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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.”
Bible Quotes 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!”
Colley Cibber Quotes Source: The Blind Boy
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“None so blind as those that will not see.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes 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.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes 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!”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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!”
Lord Horatio Nelson Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at I, i)
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“There's none so blind as they that won't see.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes 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.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, Pt. II, Scorn Not the Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned
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