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As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 481)
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: My Study Windows--Coleridge
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Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.
Author: Fulke Greville
Source: None
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A pot clashes with its lid
In someones hurried kitchen
A telephone boils off the hook.
Outside, a car door
An airplane pulls a drag of cloud.
muffled thunder.
Author: Kathy Walker
Source: None
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Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.
Author: Merry Browne
Source: None
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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.
Author: Charles Kuralt
Source: None
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
Author: Epictetus
Source: None
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Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.
Author: Hans Margolius
Source: None
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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.
Author: Ellen Glasgow
Source: None
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Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.
Author: Hans Margolius
Source: None
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.
Author: Marcel Proust
Source: None
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.
Author: Martha Washington
Source: None
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Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Author: Hans Margolius
Source: None
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The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
Author: Charles H. Perkhurst
Source: None
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Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil Williams.
Author: Rev Cecil Williams
Source: None
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... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Source: None
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Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. -Rabindranath Tagore.
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Source: None
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The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Author: Agnes Repplier
Source: None
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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.
Author: Anais Nin
Source: None
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
Author: Henri Bergson
Source: None
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The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. -Kahlil Gilbran.
Author: Kahlil Gilbran
Source: None
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Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.
Author: Willa Cather
Source: None
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What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Source: None
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You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy.
Author: Ziggy
Source: None
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We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God if he appeared within us. -Unknown.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. Walter Brueggeman -Unknown.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.
Author: J.r.r. Tolkein
Source: None
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