Fear has many eyes. [ Cervantes ]

He travels with his eyes. [ Dr. Walter Harte ]

Eyes of most unholy blue! [ Moore ]

Tears soothe suffering eyes. [ Richter ]

Four eyes see more than two. [ Proverb ]

Those blue violets, her eyes. [ Heine ]

Your horns hang in your eyes. [ Proverb ]

Love hath twenty pair of eyes. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc.4 ]

Two eyes may see more than one. [ Proverb ]

A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown eye,-
Turn full upon me thy eye,-
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one. [ W. R. Alger ]

Dead men open living men's eyes. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Soul-deep eyes of darkest night. [ Joaquin Miller ]

Whoever excels in what we prize,
Appears a hero in our eyes. [ Swift ]

The flash of his keen black eyes
Forerunning the thunder. [ Longfellow ]

Fields have eyes and hedges ears. [ Proverb ]

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine. [ Ben Jonson ]

Crows do not pick out crows' eyes. [ Proverb ]

Dark eyes - eternal soul of pride!
Deep life in all that's true!
Away, away to other skies!
Away over seas and sands!
Such eyes as those were never made
To shine in other lands. [ Leland ]

I never saw an eye so bright,
And yet so soft as hers;
It sometimes swam in liquid light.
And sometimes swam in tears;
It seemed a beauty set apart
For softness and for signs. [ Mrs. Welby ]

And thy deep eyes, amid the gloom.
Shine like jewels in a shroud. [ Longfellow ]

Hearts are oftener blind than eyes. [ Mubarrad ]

The eyes are larger than the belly. [ German Proverb ]

And violets, transform'd to eyes,
Inshrined a soul within their blue. [ Moore ]

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. [ Tennyson ]

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen.
Fallen from his high estate.
And welt'ring in his blood;
Deserted at his utmost need.
But those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ Dryden ]

And kind the voice and glad the eyes
That welcome my return at night. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
Nature poureth into nature
Through the channels of that feature
Riding on the ray of sight,
Fleeter far than whirlwinds go.
Or for service, or delight,
Hearts to hearts their meaning show. [ Emerson ]

Eyes so transparent,
That through them one sees the soul. [ Theophile Gautier ]

O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
O, drooping souls whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again! [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Faults are beauties in lover's eyes. [ Theocritus ]

Born to excel, and to command!
As by transcendent beauty to attract
All eyes, so by pre-eminence of soul
To rule all hearts. [ Congreve ]

And the Raven, never flitting.
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas
Just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamplight over him streaming
Throws his shadow on the floor.
And my soul from out that shadow,
That lies floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted - nevermore. [ Poe ]

In one soft look what language lies! [ Dibdin ]

My eyes are dim with childish tears. [ Wordsworth ]

I let fall the windows of mine eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Eyes that droop like summer flowers. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth exposed be lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ John Dryden ]

Flaw-seeing eyes, like needle points. [ Lowell ]

How blue were Ariadne's eyes
When, from the sea's horizon line,
At eve, she raised them on the skies!
My Psyche, bluer far are thine. [ Aubrey De Vere ]

I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears. [ William Shakespeare ]

Blue eyes shimmer with angel glances.
Like spring violets over the lea. [ Constance F. Woolson ]

Those eyes that were so bright, love,
Have now a dimmer shine;
But what they've lost in light, love.
Is what they gave to mine.
And, still those orbs reflect, love,
The beams of former hours.
That ripened all my joys, love,
And tinted all my flowers. [ Hood ]

The eyes are the amulets of the mind. [ W. R. Alger ]

Men of cold passions have quick eyes. [ Hawthorne ]

He who buys requires an hundred eyes. [ Italian Proverb ]

Those laughing orbs, that borrow
From azure skies the light they wear.
Are like heaven - no sorrow
Can float over hues so fair. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

She listen'd with a flitting blush.
With downcast eyes, and modest grace,
For well she knew I could not choose
But gaze upon her face. [ Coleridge ]

In woman's eye the unanswerable tear. [ Byron ]

Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes. [ Balzac ]

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene
And silent waters heaven is seen. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

The world recedes; it disappears!
Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting? [ Pope ]

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. [ Byron, She Walks in Beauty ]

The eyes have one language everywhere. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Spies are the ears and eyes of princes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The heart's letter is read in the eyes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Keep thy mouth shut, but thy eyes open.

Hell trembles at a heaven-directed eye. [ Bishop Ken ]

O lovely eyes of azure.
Clear as the waters of a brook that run
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! [ Longfellow ]

In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till bewildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies.
The angels with us unawares. [ Gerald Massey ]

A jealous man's horns hang in his eyes. [ Proverb ]

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven
That from the East glad message brings:
Night is a stealthy, evil Raven,
Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. [ T. B. Aldrich ]

The eyes of women are Promethean fires. [ William Shakespeare ]

Stabbed with a white wench's black eye. [ William Shakespeare ]

As far from the heart as from the eyes. [ Proverb ]

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. [ William Shakespeare ]

With eyes
Of microscopic power, that could discern
The population of a dew-drop. [ James Montgomery ]

Dear eyes! - do not my heart forsake.
Shine, like the stars within the lake, -
Shine, and the darksome shadows break. [ Augustine J. H. Dugane ]

The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart. [ Wordsworth ]

His eye was blue and calm, as is the sky
In the serenest noon. [ Willis ]

It lifts the boughs, whose shadows deep,
Are life's oblivion, the soul's sleep,
And kisses the closed eyes
Of him who slumbering lies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

One crow never pulls out another's eyes. [ Proverb ]

The eye sees not itself
But by reflection, by some other things. [ William Shakespeare ]

Give me a look, give me a face.
That makes simplicity a grace:
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free;
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. [ Ben Jonson ]

If eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. [ Emerson ]

Eyes bright, with many tears behind them. [ Carlyle, on his Wife ]

Women read each other at a single glance. [ Rivarol ]

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords. [ William Shakespeare ]

An artist should have more than two eyes. [ Lamartine ]

An eye like Mars, to threaten or command. [ William Shakespeare ]

Women were made to give our eyes delight;
A female sloven is an odious sight. [ Young ]

For faults are beauties in a lover's eyes. [ Theocritus ]

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. [ Coleridge ]

Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes. [ Homer ]

Bribes throw dust into cunning men's eyes. [ Proverb ]

Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open. [ Proverb ]

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

Heart on her lip and soul within her eyes. [ Byron ]

Buyers want an hundred eyes, sellers none. [ Proverb ]

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee! [ Boethius ]

There are eyes half defiant.
Half meek and compliant;
Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm
To bring us good or to work us harm. [ Phoebe Cary ]

So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves tonight.
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;
I will go down to the chapel and pray. [ Longfellow ]

No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes. [ Carlyle ]

Glances are the first billets-doux of love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. [ Proverb ]

With eyes that looked into the very soul -
Bright - and as black and burning as a coal. [ Byron ]

To follow foolish precedents, and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think. [ Cowper ]

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim.
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.
Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,
That die unmarried ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength - a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one! [ William Shakespeare ]

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty, violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
Or Cytherea's breath. [ William Shakespeare ]

You could spy trouble if your eyes were out. [ Proverb ]

Deep brown eyes running over with glee;
Blue eyes are pale, and gray eyes are sober;
Bonnie brown eyes are the eyes for me. [ Constance F. Woolson ]

Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Sc. 3 ]

He that blows in the dust fills his own eyes. [ Proverb ]

For wheresoever I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around.
And still I seem to tread on classic ground. [ Addison ]

Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies
From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes. [ Pope ]

Neither eyes on letters nor hands in coffers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. [ Pope ]

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears. [ Horace Mann ]

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The tears that stood considering in her eyes. [ Dryden ]

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. [ Gray ]

What a soul, twenty fathom deep, in her eyes! [ Leigh Hunt ]

To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes,
And give as soft attachment to thy senses,
As infants empty of all thought. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though absent, present in desires they be;
Our souls much further than our eyes can see. [ Drayton ]

The eye sees what it brings the power to see. [ Carlyle ]

We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Our trust far more than ten ear witnesses. [ Herrick ]

Within her tender eye
The heaven of April, with its changing light. [ Longfellow ]

That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who buys has need of an hundred eyes;
But one is enough to him that sells the stuff. [ Proverb ]

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye. [ Eliza Cook ]

And eyes disclosed what eyes alone could tell. [ Dwight ]

These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]

Tell them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. [ Emerson ]

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. [ Du Bartas ]

In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade,
Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand.
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed.
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed. [ Pope ]

The only eyes a general can trust are his own. [ U. S. Grant ]

In those sunk eyes the grief of years I trace.
And sorrow seems acquainted with that face. [ Ickell ]

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,
Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores,
Of will and judgment. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fair eldest child of love, thou spotless night!
Empress of silence, and the queen of sleep;
Who, with thy black cheek's pure complexion,
Mak'st lovers' eyes enamoured of thy beauty. [ Marlowe ]

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes
The eyes see better for being washed with them. [ Bovee ]

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul. [ Simms ]

One crow will not peck out another crow's eyes. [ Proverb ]

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes.
But not too humbly, or she will despise
Thee and thy suit though told in moving tropes;
Disguise even tenderness, if thou art wise. [ Byron ]

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye. [ L. E. Landon ]

The cat shuts its eyes when stealing the cream. [ Proverb ]

To whirl the eyes too much shows a kite's brain. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]

As this auspicious day began the race
Of every virtue join'd with every grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore. [ Jeffrey ]

Next, over his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole.
How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug,
And sucked all over, like an industrious bug. [ Pope ]

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

What avails it that indulgent Heaven
From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
If we, ingenious to torment ourselves.
Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
Enjoy the present; nor with needless cares
Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
Serene, and master of yourself, prepare
For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven. [ Armstrong ]

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too; what the declined is,
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
As feel in his own fall. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred. [ George S. Hillard ]

He that blows in the dust fills his eyes with it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. [ Pope ]

There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes.
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth. [ Bailey ]

Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes.
Desirous still, still impotent to rise. [ Shenstone ]

And then her look - Oh, where's the heart so wise
Could, unbewilder'd, meet those matchless eyes?
Quick, restless, strange, but exquisite withal.
Like those of angels. [ Moore ]

Women's glances express what they dare not speak. [ Alphonse Karr ]

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart. [ St. Augustine ]

Oh, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!
To prison, eyes, never look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! [ William Shakespeare ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity. [ Tertullian ]

If I could write the beauty of your eyes.
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches never touched earthly faces. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ignorance shuts its eyes and believes it is right. [ Punch ]

Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes
And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 4 ]

Like a star glancing out from the blue of the sky! [ Whittier ]

Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He has brought up a bird to pick out his own eyes. [ Proverb ]

Her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright.
That birds would sing, and think it were not night. [ William Shakespeare ]

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. [ Cato ]

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. [ Franklin ]

Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

The eyes believe themselves, the ears other people. [ German Proverb ]

Discreet wives have sometimes neither eyes nor ears. [ Proverb ]

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes. [ George Eliot ]

The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big. [ Proverb ]

Thine eyes are like the deep, blue, boundless heaven
Contracted in two circles underneath
Their long, fine lashes; dark, far, measureless,
Orb within orb, and line through line inwoven. [ Shelley ]

In her eyes a thought
Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, -
A mystical forewarning. [ T. B. Aldrich ]

As much of heaven is visible as we have eyes to see. [ William Winter ]

Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes).
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flashed an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. [ Byron ]

Well might the cat wink, when both her eyes were out. [ Proverb ]

The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Though love is blind, yet it is not for want of eyes. [ Proverb ]

He that comes after sees with more eyes than his own. [ Proverb ]

Give your tongue more holiday than your hands or eyes. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

Fine eyes are to the face what eloquence is to speech.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason. [ Publius Syrus ]

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Those that are in love, think other people's eyes out. [ Proverb ]

I thought to bless myself, and I beat out both my eyes. [ Proverb ]

There is no end of affection taken in at the eyes only. [ Steele ]

It is in the eyes that the language of love is written. [ Mme. Cottin ]

Begin with Argus' eyes, and finish with Briareus' hands. [ Proverb ]

Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking. [ Tupper ]

Mediocrity is excellence to the eyes of mediocre people. [ Joubert ]

The daisies' eyes are a-twinkle with happy tears of dew. [ Fitz-Hugh Ludlow ]

Women who have not fine teeth laugh only with their eyes. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

A heaven of dreams in her large lotus eyes, darkly divine. [ Gerald Massey ]

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes. [ Henry Home ]

He that hews above his height, may have chips in his eyes. [ Proverb ]

Her hands are on the wheel, but her eyes are in the street. [ Proverb ]

Light visits the hearts, as it does the eyes, of all living. [ Carlyle ]

Her eye in silence hath a speech which eye best understands. [ Southwell ]

His eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming. [ Poe ]

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. [ Franklin ]

The eye of Paul Pry often finds more than he wished to find. [ Lessing ]

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? [ Thackeray ]

He is so wary that he sleeps like a hare, with his eyes open. [ Proverb ]

Eyes are better, on the whole, than telescopes or microscopes. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. [ Ben Jonson ]

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. [ Lava ter ]

Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. [ Milton ]

Sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages. [ William Shakespeare ]

She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent. [ Aaron Hill ]

Windows, white and azure-laced with blue of heaven's own tinct. [ William Shakespeare ]

Faster than his tongue did make offense, his eye did heal it up. [ William Shakespeare ]

What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley of provocation. [ William Shakespeare ]

Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. [ Joseph Joubert ]

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. [ Proverb ]

Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane of her still spirit. [ Tennyson ]

All's one to her; above her fan she'd make sweet eyes to Caliban. [ Aldrich ]

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes. [ Proverb ]

The eyes, being in the highest part, have the office of sentinels. [ Cicero ]

Believe these tears, which from my wounded heart bleed at my eyes. [ Dryden ]

To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes. [ Burke ]

For brilliancy, no gem compares with the eyes of a beautiful woman. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

People come to look; their greatest pleasure is to feast their eyes. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The desire to please everything having eyes seems inborn in maidens. [ Salamon Gessner ]

The curious questioning eye, that plucks the heart of every mystery. [ Grenville Mellen ]

The eyes are the windows of a woman's heart; you may enter that way! [ Eugene Sue ]

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love. [ Propertius ]

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs. [ Addison ]

A strange ox every now and then turns its eyes wistfully to the door. [ Proverb ]

Beauty itself doth itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. [ William Shakespeare ]

Those laughing orbs, that borrow from azure skies the light they wear. [ Frances S. Osgood ]

Where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? [ William Shakespeare ]

Persuasive, yet denying eyes, all eloquent with language of their own. [ Locke ]

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. [ Geo. MacDonald ]

Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell of Fancy, my immortal sight. [ Milton ]

All you'll get by it, you may put into your eyes, and not see the worse. [ Proverb ]

Eyes are not so common as poets would think, or poets would be plentier. [ Lowell ]

I like writing with a peacock's quill, because its feathers are all eyes. [ Proverb ]

Use your ears and eyes, but hold your tongue, if you would live in peace.

There is pleasure in meeting the eyes of those to whom we have done good. [ La Bruyere ]

Even Justice wears a bandage, and shuts her eyes on everything deceptive. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Bread with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps up to the eyes. [ Proverb ]

His eyebrow dark, and eye of fire, showed spirit proud, and prompt to ire. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! [ William Shakespeare ]

A holy thing is sleep, on the worn spirit shed, and eyes that wake to weep. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Music, which gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. [ Tennyson ]

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Such eyes as may have looked from heaven, but never were raised to it before! [ Moore ]

That blind, rascally boy that abuses everyone's eyes, because his own are out. [ William Shakespeare ]

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. [ William Law ]

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. [ Cicero ]

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. [ Hare ]

We can fix our eyes on perfection, and make almost everything speed towards it. [ Channing ]

I have not wept these forty years; but now my mother comes afresh into my eyes. [ Dryden ]

The eyes, the ears, the tongue, the hands, the feet, they all fast in their way. [ Proverb ]

Eyes and ears, two trade pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores of will and Judgment. [ William Shakespeare ]

A lamp is lit in woman's eye, that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by. [ N. P. Willis ]

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. [ Alphonse Karr ]

Our eyes when gazing on sinful objects are out of their calling and God's keeping. [ Fuller ]

Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant are more learned than their ears. [ William Shakespeare ]

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. [ Homer ]

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. [ Ecclesiates xi:7 ]

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. [ Addison ]

The April is in her eyes; it is love's spring, and these the showers to bring it on. [ William Shakespeare ]

A withered hermit, fivescore winters worn, might shake off fifty, looking in her eye. [ William Shakespeare ]

There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears - the one of grief, the other of deceit. [ Pythagoras ]

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us. [ Abraham Coles ]

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do. [ Byron ]

Eyes not down-dropped nor overbright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

All women are fond of minds that inhabit fine bodies, and of souls that have fine eyes. [ J. Joubert ]

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. [ Beethoven ]

This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven. [ Charnock ]

It is sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. [ Byron ]

As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes, sees in sweet dreams a beaming youth of glory. [ Alexander Smith ]

Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow eyes, and builds himself caves to abide in them. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not. [ Ecclus ]

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. [ Gray ]

True eyes, too pure and too honest in aught to disguise the sweet soul shining through them. [ Owen Meredith ]

A woman is a well-served table, that one sees with different eyes before and after the meal.

Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace. [ Crashaw ]

There are certain things in which a woman's vision is sharper than a hundred eyes of the male. [ Lessing ]

Those that eat cherries with great persons, shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones. [ Proverb ]

We gladden our eyes with the beauty of flowers; yet in one short morning they die and pass away. [ Saigiyo ]

Bid the cheek be ready with a blush, modest as Morning when she coldly eyes the youthful Phoebus. [ William Shakespeare ]

But her's, which through the crystal tears gave light. Shone like the moon in water seen by night. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark upon the face, especially the eyes. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Rivals who blow out each other's brains for the eyes of a coquette, prove that they have no brains. [ A. Ricard ]

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their eyes. [ Montaigne ]

Read and take your nourishment in at your eyes; shut up your mouth and chew the cud of understanding. [ Congreve ]

True goodness is like the glow-worm; it shines most when no eyes, except those of heaven are upon it. [ Anonymous ]

The balls of sight are so formed that one man's eyes are spectacles to another to read his heart with. [ Johnson ]

No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes the object may be. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it. [ Bishop Hall ]

Since your eyes are so sharp, that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind. [ Lyly ]

Well the art thou knowest in soft forgetfulness to steep the eyes which sorrow taught to watch and weep. [ Mrs. Tighe ]

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. [ Colton ]

Where such radiant lights have shone, no wonder if her cheeks be grown sunburnt with lustre of their own. [ John Cleaveland ]

To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot. [ South ]

A beautiful woman is the "hell" of the soul, the "purgatory" of the purse, and the "paradise" of the eyes. [ Fontenelle ]

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Love is a malicious blind boy, who seeks to blind the eyes of his guide, that both may go astray together.

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

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? [ Anna Letitia Barbauld ]

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. [ Dickens ]

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard. [ Hosea Ballou ]

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it. [ J. C. Hare ]

When there is love in the heart there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues. [ Beecher ]

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. [ Emerson ]

It is necessary to repent for years in order to efface a fault in the eyes of men; a single tear suffices with God. [ Chateaubriand ]

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works: they have eyes only for spots and blemishes. [ Addison ]

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. [ Macchiavelli ]

Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, seem to be drawn by love's own hand, by love himself in love. [ Dryden ]

Lips become compressed and drawn with anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are quenched of their fires by many tears. [ S. Lover ]

There is as much eloquence in the tone of the voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker as in his choice of words. [ Rochefoucauld ]

There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. [ Weber ]

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years - the language of the soul, told through the eye. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Her deep blue eyes smile constantly, as if they had by fitness won the secret of a happy dream she does not care to speak. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Though you had the wisdom of Newton or the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures. [ Burns ]

Beneath her drooping lashes slept a world of eloquent meaning; passionate but pure, dreamy, subdued, but, oh, how beautiful! [ Mrs. Osgood ]

All the gazers on the skies read not in fair heaven's story expresser truth or truer glory than they might in her bright eyes. [ Ben Jonson ]

God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. [ T. L. Cuyller ]

Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions. [ Alcott ]

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. [ Georges Sand ]

Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light, and, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay, till they might open to adorn the day. [ William Shakespeare ]

We disregard the things which lie under our eyes; indifferent to what is close at hand, we inquire after things that are far away. [ Pliny ]

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. [ Robert Leighton ]

The soul is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! [ Lessing ]

We must love our friends as true amateurs love paintings; they have their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine parts, and see no others. [ Mme. d'Epinay ]

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Misfortune, when we look upon it with our eyes, is smaller than when our imagination sinks the evil down into the recesses of the soul. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Gradual as the snow, at heaven's breath, melts off and shows the azure flowers beneath, her lids unclosed, and the bright eyes were seen. [ Moore ]

Soul rolls away the mist from his eyes, and the very spot selected as the receptacle of his tears, becomes the place of his highest rapture. [ J. T. Headley ]

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead when they are no longer of any use. But flatterers destroy the souls of the living by blinding their eyes. [ Maximus ]

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. [ Thackeray ]

With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive, showy and tinkling, but affording just as little for the heart as it offers much to eyes and ears. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We should love our friends as true amateurs love pictures: they keep their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine points, and do not see the defects. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. [ Beecher ]

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves. [ Paxton Hood ]

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. [ Burke ]

There is something irresistibly pleasing in the conversation of a fine woman; even though her tongue be silent, the eloquence of her eyes teach wisdom. [ Goldsmith ]

Speech is a laggard and a sloth; but the eyes shoot out electric fluid that condenses all the elements of sentiment and passion in one single emanation. [ Horace Smith ]

Heroes are men who set out to be demi-gods in their own eyes, and who end by being so at certain moments by dint of despising and combating all humanity. [ George Sand ]

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over. [ Emerson ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character. [ Cobden ]

Last scene of all, that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness, and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. [ William Shakespeare ]

O, the eye's light is a noble gift of heaven! All beings live from light; each fair created thing. The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. [ Schiller ]

I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light - are luminous, but not sparkling. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Oh, but books are such safe company! They keep your secrets well; they never boast that they made your eyes glisten, or your cheek flush, or your heart throb. [ Mrs. S. P. Parton ]

Famine is in thy cheeks. Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back; The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. [ William Shakespeare ]

And the prettiest foot; Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats, Ah! Mr. Trapland? [ Congreve ]

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes. [ Carlyle ]

Those eyes, soft and capricious as a cloudless sky, whose azure depth their color emulates, must needs be conversant with upward looks - prayer's voiceless service. [ Wordsworth ]

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep. [ Goethe ]

Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes. [ Emerson ]

What a comfort a dull but kindly person is at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring any more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our mind. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. [ Emerson ]

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and should do their duty. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Guns, swords, batteries, armies and ships of war are set in motion by man for the subjugation of an enemy. Women bring conquerors to their feet with the magic of their eyes. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

There are few things more singular than the blindness which, in matters of the highest importance to ourselves, often hides the truth that is plain as noon to all other eyes. [ Rev. Dr. Croly ]

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother. [ Bulwer ]

Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it. [ Ed ]

Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces. [ John Dryden ]

Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and ears, and the work is half done. [ Chesterfield ]

That same dew, which sometime on the buds was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes, like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. [ William Shakespeare ]

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint. [ Emerson ]

Our souls sit close and silently within. And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. [ Dryden ]

The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. [ Seneca ]

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. [ Epictetus ]

Men with gray eyes are generally keen, energetic, and at first cold; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow. Search the ranks of our benevolent men and you will agree with me. [ Dr. Leask ]

Why was the sight to such a tender ball as the eye confined, so obvious and so easy to be quenched, and not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, that she might look at will through every pore? [ Milton ]

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. [ Phillips Brooks ]

To live without bitterness, one must turn his eyes toward the ludicrous side of the world, and accustom himself to look at men only as jumping jacks, and at society as the board on which they jump. [ Chamfort ]

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone. [ Gotthold ]

It is from Cadmus, the inventor of the alphabet, this ingenious art comes to us of painting words, speaking to the eyes, and by the different form of traced figures, giving color and body to the thoughts. [ De Brebeuf ]

A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little - always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. [ Frederic Saunders ]

The great moments of life are but moments like others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes fill with tears when he thinks of the famous inventor of logarithms. [ Holmes ]

Someone once observed, and the observation did him credit, whoever he was, that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping. [ Albert Smith ]

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. [ Emerson ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion. [ Tertullian ]

A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport. [ D'Argens ]

Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]

Of God's light I was not utterly bereft, if my as yet sealed eyes, with their unspeakable longing, could nowhere see Him; nevertheless in my heart He was present and His heaven-written law still stood legible and sacred there. [ Carlyle ]

Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision! [ Charnock ]

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Emerson ]

Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting precious living bodies and priceless living souls into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip manure. [ Carlyle ]

There is before the eyes of men, on the brink of dissolution, a glassy film, which death appears to impart, that they may have a brief prospect of eternity when some behold the angels of light, while others have the demons of darkness before them. [ Cockton ]

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented. [ Addison ]

A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close. [ H. P. Liddon ]

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. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. [ Addison ]

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance. [ Ruskin ]

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see: and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. [ Whipple ]

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream. [ Tuckerman ]

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression, - a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination. [ Cicero ]

None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. [ Bovee ]

The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. [ Hiram Powers ]

Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but false art omits or changes all that is ugly. Great art accepts Nature as she is, but directs the eyes and thoughts to what is most perfect in her; false art saves itself the trouble of direction by removing or altering whatever is objectionable. [ John Ruskin ]

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference. [ Leigh Hunt ]

O poets! what injury you have done us, and how right Plato was to banish you from his republic! How your ambrosia has rendered more bitter our absinth! How have we found our lives more barren and more desolate, after having turned our eyes toward the sublime perspectives which your dreams have opened in the infinite! [ T. Gautier ]

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]

Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. [ Rev. T. Adams ]

It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism. [ Southey ]

Promising is the very air of the time; it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and little, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. [ Montaigne ]

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. [ Joseph Addison ]

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. [ Carlyle ]

If flowers have souls, said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers. They go, answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips. [ Richter ]

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]

If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature? [ Emerson ]

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us. [ Lowell ]

When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar! [ Carlyle ]

Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; 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. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]

As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian bran? [ Rev. Dr. Donne ]

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]

When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together; and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]

See a fond mother encircled by her children; with pious tenderness she looks around, and her soul even melts with maternal love. One she kisses on its cheeks, and clasps another to her bosom; one she sets upon her knee, and finds a seat upon her foot for another. And while, by their actions, by their lisping words, and asking eyes, she understands their numberless little wishes, to these she dispenses a look, and a word to those; and whether she grants or refuses, whether she smiles or frowns, it is all in tender love. [ Krummacher ]

I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother. The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother, stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother. I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]