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As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

A pot clashes with its lid In someones hurried kitchen A telephone boils off the hook. Outside, a car door An airplane pulls a drag of cloud. muffled thunder.

Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.

Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil Williams.

... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.

Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. -Rabindranath Tagore.

The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.