Logan Pearsall Smith - Eyes Quotes

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The future looms a dark fog before us; but through it we see the eyes of Posterity, gazing at us coldly.

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On scenes of worldly splendour I gaze with eyes more mild than those of Moses when, at the sight of the Golden Calf and the dancing, his heart waxed wroth within him.

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Moralists who tell you that Envy is the only vice without a pleasure, have never seen themselves in the eyes of envy.

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Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

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When I see those beautiful and mysterious apparitions we call people, I like to think of their adorations one for another; how they love to gaze in the mirrors of each other's eyes.

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I know too much; I have stuffed too many of the facts of History and Science into my intellectuals. My eyes have grown dim over books; believing in geological periods, cave dwellers, Chinese Dynasties, and the fixed stars has prematurely aged me.

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