And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.
George Canning
Quotes , Source: New Morality
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And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes , Source: The Canterbury Tales (preamble, l. 6,134), The Wife of Bath's Tale
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The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
Sir John Denham
Quotes , Source: in Todd's "Johnson"
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The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde,
The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne.
Barnaby Googe
Quotes , Source: Sonnettes--Out of Syght, Out of Mynde
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks.)
Victor Hugo
Quotes , Source: Eviradnus (IX)
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Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Rev. Frederick Langbridge
Quotes , Source: in "A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts" published by the Religious Tract Society
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Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue
The visual nerve, for he had much to see.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 414)
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If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 414)
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We see things not as they are but as we are.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 414)
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He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight.
- Thomas Percy,
Thomas Percy
Quotes , Source: Reliques of Ancient Poetry--Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
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For any man with half an eye,
What stands before him may espy;
But optics sharp it needs I ween,
To see what is not to be seen.
John Trumbull
Quotes , Source: McFingal (canto I, l. 67)
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