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glancing

«Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.»
«I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance»
«No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.»
«The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.»
«Symmetry is what we see at a glance»
«Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.»
«Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.»
«A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.»
«Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.»
«My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.»