Sight Quotes — Page 36

Emily Dickinson

Poet

“Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!”

Beauty Sight Crowds

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

“A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.”

Goal Sight Promise

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Delia Smith

Author

“I do believe you can be attracted by somebody at first sight. We have all done it.”

Believe Done

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Denis Waitley

Author, Motivational Speaker

“Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.”

Men Goal

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Dante Alighieri

Poet, Philosopher

“I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.”

Long Light Sight

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Adam Smith

Philosopher, Economist

“Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.”

Men Judging Sight

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Adam Smith

Philosopher, Economist

“To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.”

People Government Sight

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Dante Alighieri

Poet, Philosopher

“As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.”

Sight Circles Squares

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Carson McCullers

Novelist

“There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.”

People Names Sight

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Benjamin Carson

Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician

“Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.”

Opportunity Hard Work Sight

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Benjamin Franklin

Inventor, Statesman, Author

“Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.”

Desire Sight Cheer

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Debra Dean

Author

“I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.”

Names Acting Sight

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