Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Eyes not down-dropp'd nor over-bright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity. Tennyson.

Eyes / Of microscopic power, that could discern / The population of a dewdrop. J. Montgomery.

Eyes raised towards heaven are always beautiful, 25 whatever they be. Joubert.

Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. Emerson.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth. Sen.

Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that. Lowell.

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Fa bene, e non guardare a chi—Do good, no matter to whom. It. Pr.

Faber suæ fortunæ—The maker of his own fortune. 30 Sall.

Fabricando fabri fimus—We become workmen by working. Pr.