That fine part of our constitution, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions, appetites, and inclinations, as the mind itself; at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. Love, anger, pride, and avarice, all visibly move in those little orbs.
Addison.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Emerson.
It is the eyes of other people that ruin us. If all but myself were blind I should neither want a fine house nor fine furniture.
Franklin.
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man’s eyes are spectacles to another., to read his heart with.
Johnson.
The curious questioning eye, that plucks the heart of every mystery.
Mellen.
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Colton.
The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.
Propertius.
The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a quiet stream.
Tuckerman.
The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye.
T. Adams.
Who has a daring eye, tells downright truths and downright lies.
Lavaer.
Where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye?
Shakespeare.
The eye is the window of the soul; the intellect and will are seen in it. The animals look for man’s intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye.
Hiram Powers.
A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent; a kind eye makes contradiction an assent; an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us.
Addison.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Franklin.
Lovers are angry reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things by their eyes.
Montaigne.
The dearest things in the world are our neighbor’s eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in house keeping.
Smith.
Our eyes, when gazing on sinful objects, are out of their calling, and out of God’s keeping.
Fuller.
A wanton eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
Augustine.
The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners; ideas as well as objects; realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.
E.P. Whipple.
Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; wait for no introduction; ask no leave of age or rank; respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!.
Emerson.
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
Hawthoene.
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