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“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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“And every eye
Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 17), (Pope's translation)
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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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“See and to be seen.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Epithalamion (st. 3, l. 4)
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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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“A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
[Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]”
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Quotes Source: The Aeneid (III, 658)
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