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They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.