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«I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.»
«I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.»
Author: Peter Nivio Zarlenga | About: Imagination | Keywords: ears
«I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love»
Author: Robert Tizon | About: Heart, Love, Senses | Keywords: by ear, ears, eyes, hear, lips, rather, see, Seeing Eye, speak, would
«It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?»
«If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.»
«Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak»
Author: Epictetus | About: Nature | Keywords: ears, in one ear, tongue, twice
«Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak»
Author: Epictetus | About: Communication, Nature | Keywords: ears, in one ear
«If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be»
«If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,»
«In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!»

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