Sore Eyes Quotes

• Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.

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  William Shakespeare

  Hurt   Book   Eye  

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Warburton (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.28

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• Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest.

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  Adam Smith

  Eye   Men   Empathy  

  Adam Smith (1869). “Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses”, p.10

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• You're a parasite for sore eyes.

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  Gregory Ratoff

  Sarcastic   Eye   Parasites  

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• The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

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  Jonathan Swift

  Eye   Sight   Sore Eyes  

  Polite Conversation "First Conversation" (1738)

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• On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.

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  Morrie Ryskind

  Eye   Sight   Gone  

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• Conjunctivitis.com — that’s a site for sore eyes.

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  Tim Vine

  Eye   Site   Sore Eyes  

  "Tim Vine's one-liners - what is his best joke? - poll" by Mayer Nissim, www.digitalspy.com. February 10, 2012.

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• the sight of me is good for sore eyes

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  Charles Dickens

  Eye   Sight   Sore Eyes  

  Charles Dickens (2012). “David Copperfield”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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