Leslie Stephen Quotes
He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
Leslie Stephen
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
Natasha Trethewey
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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
John Donne
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When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
Jose Bergamin
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The way he looked at her made her heart thump, her breath catch. For a second, those dark eyes seemed to have no end to them, as if she were looking into a hall of mirrors and seeing reflection upon reflection echoing into infinity.
Courtney Milan
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English never met a word it didn't like.
Anu Garg
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Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.
Douglas Wilder
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He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
Leslie Stephen
