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• When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another.
  Jesus is the reason for the season!
  From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
  The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Jesus, Heart

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• Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.

  Max Lucado

  Faith, Godly, Blind Belief

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• If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Forgiveness, Eye, Practice

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Fighting, Talking

  Barack Obama's Victory Speech in Chicago, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Hope, Speak, Knows

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1418, Delphi Classics

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• My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.

  William Shakespeare

  I Love You, True Love, Wedding

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• Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

  John Heywood

  Knowledge, Deaf, Obstinacy

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• Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

  Paul Valery

  Knowledge, World, Complexity

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• There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Wise, Horse

  Thomas Brooks (1799). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.218

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• There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

  Klaus Balkenhol

  Motivational, Leadership, Differences

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• I have heard of reasons manifold
  Why Love must needs be blind,
  But this the best of all I hold,-
  His eyes are in his mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Eye, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.37, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
  One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
  One in many, O broken and blind,
  One as the waves are at one with the sea!
  Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
  Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
  One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
  One, still one, while the world grows old.

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Heart, Clouds

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Golden Hynde”, p.144, Wildside Press LLC

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• Now I know surely and forever,
  However much I have blotted our
  Waking love, its memory is still
  there. And I know the web, the net,
  The blind and crippled bird. For then, for
  One brief instant it was not blind, nor
  Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the
  Heart was free and moved itself. O love,
  I who am lost and damned with words,
  Whose words are a business and an art,
  I have no words. These words, this poem, this
  Is all confusion and ignorance.
  But I know that coached by your sweet heart,
  My heart beat one free beat and sent
  Through all my flesh the blood of truth.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Life, Sweet, Art

  "She Is Away". Poem by Kenneth Rexroth. "In Defense of the Earth". Book by Kenneth Rexroth, www-personal.umich.edu. 1956.

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• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Music, Attitude, Destiny

  "The Glass Bead Game". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1943.

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• I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

  Mark Hatfield

  Patriotism, Want, Endorsements

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• The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Country, Attitude, War

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Luxury, Parent

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• People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter... than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent. Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Death, Punishment, People

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• Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Huxley

  Religion, Atheism, Sin

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• A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

  Fred Hoyle

  Science, If There Is A God, Numbers

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• Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Change, Destiny, History

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• I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

  Helen Keller

  Fear, Blessing, Sight

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• Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Eye, Vision, Adrift

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