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In her eyes a thought
Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,
A mystical forewarning.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: Pythagoras
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A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown one;
Turn full upon me thy eye,--
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one.
Author: William R. Alger
Source: Oriental Poetry--Mirtsa Schaffy on Eyes
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There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes,
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Drawing Room)
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Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Loyal Subject
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He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as
the apple of his eye.
Author: Bible
Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XXXII, v. 10)
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In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XV, v. 52)
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The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. VI, v. 22)
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Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a
fool are in the ends of the earth.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 24)
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Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower
Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Author: Bible
Source: Song of Solomon (ch. 7, v. 4)
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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
Author: Francis William Bourdillon
Source: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
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Eyes of gentianellas azure,
Staring, winking at the skies.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Hector in the Garden
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Thine eyes are springs in whose serene
And silent waters heaven is seen.
Their lashes are the herbs that look
On their young figures in the brook.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: Oh, Fairest of the Rural Maids
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of
millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can
distinguish the tints of a violet.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: What Will He Do With It? (bk. VIII, ch. II)
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The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves
two, all the world else is blinde.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 6, p. 40)
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Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chansten'd down the whole.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 60)
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With eyes that look'd into the very soul--
. . . .
Bright--and as black and burning as coal.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto IV, st. 94)
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in
it what the eye brings means of seeing.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Hist. of the French Revolution (vol. I, p. 5), (People's ed.)
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There are eyes half defiant,
Half meek and compliant;
Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm
To bring us good or to work with harm.
Author: Phoebe Cary
Source: Dove's Eyes
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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Natura Deorum (bk. II, 56)
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The love light in her eye.
Author: Hartley Coleridge
Source: Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (no. CCXVIII)
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My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: A Day Dream
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Eyes, that displaces
The neighbor diamond, and out-faces
That sun-shine by their own sweet graces.
Author: Richard Crashaw
Source: Wishes--To his (Supposed) Mistress
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Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Paradiso (XVIII, 21)
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Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone.
[It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Purgatorio (XXXII, 31)
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With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of
the other.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ch. VIII)
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Author: Horace
Source: None
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Author: Jewish Proverb
Source: None
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An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
Author: H. Powers
Source: None
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No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
Author: Jean Toomer
Source: None
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What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
Author: Dorothy Dix
Source: None
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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