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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Fear
Jean Anouilh

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A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Ignorance
Arabian Proverb

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Love At First Sight
Natalie Clifford Barney

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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Sir James M. Barrie

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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Interest
Francis Beaumont

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]
Death and Dying
Bible

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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Nudity
Otto Von Bismarck

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Vengeance has no foresight.
Vengeance
Napoleon Bonaparte

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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
Humankind
Elias Canetti

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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Insights
Thomas Carlyle

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Action
Rene Char

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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Jealousy
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Children
Madame Marie Curie

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Sight before hearsay.
Gossip
Danish Proverb

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
Goals
Anita DeFrantz

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Marriage
Phyllis Diller

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Obsession
George Eliot

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Present
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Enemies
Euripides

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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Writers and Writing
Edna Ferber

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The best vision is insight.
Vision
Malcolm S. Forbes

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Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
Envy
Thomas Fuller

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Action
Andre Gide

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Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Goals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun