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The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Rober

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Robertson Davies

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He types his labored column — weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. – Robertson Davies

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. – Robertson Davies

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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. – Benjamin Franklin

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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. – Horace

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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The eye is the jewel of the body. – Henry David Thoreau

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