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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves
two, all the world else is blinde.
The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves
two, all the world else is blinde.
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
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Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes)
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flash'd 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 chansten'd down the whole.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.