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A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.
George Foreman— Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
john milton— 1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
The imitator is a poor kind of creature. If the man who paints only the tree, or a flower, or other surface he sees beforehimwereanartist, thekingof artistswould be the photographer.
Whistler— 1890 The GentleArt of Making Enemies.
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself.
Northrop Frye— Talk 4, The Keys To Dreamland, p. 42
...immigration today is a racial issue. It is one which sees masses of non-whites from around the globe immigrating to white countries.
arthur kemp— The Immigration Invasion (2008)
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,Christ on my right, Christ on my leftChrist where I lie, Christ where I sit, Christ where I ariseChrist in the heart of every man who thinks of me,Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,Christ in every eye that sees me,Christ in every ear that hears me.
saint patrick— Variant:Christ for my guardianship today: against poison, against burning, against drowning, against wounding, that there may come to me a multitude of rewards;Christ with me,Christ before me,Christ behind me,Christ in me,Christ over me,Christ to right of me,Christ to left of me,Christ in lying down,Christ in sitting,Christ in rising up,Christ in the heart of every person who may think of me,Christ in the mouth of every person who may speak of me,Christ in every eye, which may look on me!Christ in every ear, which may hear me!
When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.
fulton j. sheen— Treasure in Clay: the Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, (New York, NY: Image Books/Doubleday, 1980)
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Sophocles— Hipponous, fragment 280.
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
Henry David Thoreau— March 23, 1856
A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
william wordsworth— A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (1799).
So it happens, for instance, that a man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time that he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll hand him over cold-bloodedly to the police.
bertolt brecht— Peachum in Act 1, scene 1, pp. 5-6Variant translation: A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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john brunner— context (1) “Scanalyze My Name“
Animals, these beings trapped As I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap, Aging, but without knowledge of their age, Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death Oh, bars of my own body, open, open! The world goes by my cage and never sees me.
Randall Jarrell— "The Woman at the Washington Zoo," lines 14-19
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.
friedrich nietzsche— “Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 128
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that drives this guilty wish To walk serenely in front of family to collect my kiss and though this notion is as flawed as any I have learned I'd like to think that like the others, it's something I deserve
happy rhodes— "Chosen One"
He [Cézanne] reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
Rainer Maria Rilke— Letter to his wife, reprinted in Rilke’s Letters on Cézanne (1952, trans. 1985). (October 23, 1907)
“If you want him defined, here he is: a prime, well-fed beast such as takes medals at the cattle shows, and nothing more,” he said, with a tone of vexation that interested her. “No; how so?” she replied. “He's seen a great deal, anyway; he's cultured?” “It's an utterly different culture their culture. He's cultivated, one sees, simply to be able to despise culture, as they despise everything but animal pleasures.”
leo tolstoy— Vronky and Anna discussing the visiting Prince, Part 4, Chapter 3
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.
Mahatma Gandhi— Young India 1924-1926 (1927), p. 1285.
Jaspers sees the historical meaning of existential philosophy as a struggle to awaken in the individual the possibilities of an authentic and genuine life, in the face of the great modern drift toward a standardized mass society.
— Chapter Two, The Encounter With Nothingness, p. 28
For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, p. 516. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
william cowper— William Cowper, Hymns, Exhortation to Prayer.
I think these things ( firearms ) were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming.
Martin Luther— Martin Luther, Table Talk (1569), 3552.
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
robert burton— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section III. Memb. 4. Subsect. 1.
Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little, diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.
— Bishop Hall Select Thoughts, or Choice Helps for Pious Spirits
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
— Hipponous, fragment 280.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
— used 23 November 2011, proposed by Kalki
He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says what says he? Caw.
— Vincent Bourne, The Jackdaw. Cowper's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n.
Alexander Pope— 1733 An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.99-104.
