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#blindness

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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.


Margaret Atwood


#eye #eye for an eye #leads #more #only

There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginations of love were essential to the fulness of its growth. This is a common mistake on the part of those who have never felt love's true bonds. Once in those chains, one perceives that they are not of the sort full forged in a day. They are made as the great iron cables are made, on which bridges are swung across the widest water-channels,--not of single huge rods, or bars, which would be stronger, perhaps, to look at; but myriads of the finest wires, each one by itself so fine, so frail, it would barely hold a child's kite in the wind: by hundreds, hundreds of thousands of such, twisted, re-twisted together, are made the mighty cables, which do not any more swerve from their place in the air, under the weight and jar of the ceaseless traffic and tread of two cities, than the solid earth swerves under the same ceaseless weight and jar. Such cables do not break.


Helen Hunt Jackson


#blindness #california #female-author #helen-hunt-jackson #history

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.


Grantland Rice


#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.


Tony Snow


#annihilate #anymore #blindness #civilization #death

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.


John Milton


#bear #blind #blindness #miserable

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.


Ian McDonald


#beauty #blindness #seeing #sight #art

It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state A tourist in the waking world world, never quite awake. No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber, Until I realised that it was you who held me under.


Florence + the Machine


#florence-and-the-machine #kiss #dreams

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#blindness #blindness-of-man #damnation #damned #faust

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face


J.R.R. Tolkien


#judgment #truth #judgment

The only problem with her is that she is too perfect. She is bad in a way that entices, and good in a way that comforts. She is mischief but then she is the warmth of home. The dreams of the wild and dangerous but the memories of childhood and gladness. She is perfection. And when given something perfect, it is the nature of man to dedicate his mind to finding something wrong with it and then when he is able to find something wrong with it, he rejoices in his find, and sees only the flaw, becoming blind to everything else! And this is why man is never given anything that is perfect, because when given the imperfect and the ugly, man will dedicate his mind to finding what is good with the imperfect and upon finding one thing good with the extremely flawed, he will only see the one thing good, and no longer see everything that is ugly. And so....man complains to God for having less than what he wants... but this is the only thing that man can handle. Man cannot handle what is perfect. It is the nature of the mortal to rejoice over the one thing that he can proudly say that he found on his own, with no help from another, whether it be a shadow in a perfect diamond, or a faint beautiful reflection in an extremely dull mirror.


C. JoyBell C.


#blindness-of-man #flaw #flaws #human-kind #human-nature






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