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Letter "S" » sight
«Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.»
Author: Andre Gide
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About:
Adventure,
Courage,
Discovery,
Inspiration,
Risk-taking
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Keywords:
courage,
discover,
lose,
new,
New Man,
oceans,
on sight,
shore,
sight,
sighting
«Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Keywords:
Against the man,
a few,
dare,
general,
in general,
judge,
opinion,
sense of touch,
sight,
sight seeing,
test,
The General,
The sense,
touch
«The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.»
«They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.»
«Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.»
Author: William Hazlitt
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Writer)
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
admired,
at first,
at first sight,
a hundred,
a hundred times,
cast,
circumstances,
degree,
expression,
favorable,
figure,
haunted,
hundred,
meeting,
perfection,
realizing,
sight,
sight seeing,
The Haunted,
The Haunting
«There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.»
«There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.»
«There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.»
«There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist»
«Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
according,
Act of,
act upon,
arbitrarily,
Born Free,
classes,
Equal rights,
exclusive,
exercised,
granted,
lay,
laying on of hands,
lay hands on,
legitimate,
monopolize,
monopolized,
possess,
possession,
principles,
sexes,
sex act,
sight,
slaves,
unjust