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• True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

  Edward Dyer

  True Love, Heart, Eye

  Sir Edward Dyer, “The Lowest Trees Have Tops”

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• There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Stressed, Good Times

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.199

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• I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

  Rita Rudner

  Retirement, Age, Faces

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.238, Crown Archetype

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• Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

  Edward Fairfax

  Joy, Mind, Way

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• Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

  F. L. Lucas

  Simple, Sound, Principles

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.229, Harriman House Limited

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• We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

  Edward Carpenter

  Night, Sea, Two

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Body

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Circles, Demand, Publicity

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• The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

  Jean Cocteau

  Musical, Noses, Pieces

  "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.

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• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  Edmond Rostand

  Funny, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Edmond Rostand (2013). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

  Wilson Mizner

  Life, Death, Atheism

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• Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

  Margaret Cho

  Funny, Heart, Order

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• Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Memories, Play

  "Quotes: Ray Charles in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2004.

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• I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, People, May

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• I have Van Gogh's ear for music

  Stephen Fry

  Vans

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• And for the few that only lend their ear,
  That few is all the world.

  Samuel Daniel

  World

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.132

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• Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Hands, Safety

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• This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

  Emily Murphy

  Men, World, Tongue

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• Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.

  Andrei Gromyko

  Husband, Night, Your Husband

  1984 Said to Nancy Reagan at a White House reception, 28 Sep.

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• He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

  William Congreve

  Confidence, Integrity, Views

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• We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Listening

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

  John Legend

  Reality, Fire, Play

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• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  Ian Mckellen

  America, People, Ordinary

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  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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• One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

  Temple Grandin

  Hurt, School, Silence

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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