Kindle Notes & Highlights
‘Some say that dreams are made up of the things we dare not think about during our waking hours.
O ye tears! O ye tears! I am thankful that ye run; Though ye trickle in the darkness, ye shall glitter in the sun. The rainbow cannot shine if the rain refuse to fall, And the eyes that cannot weep are the saddest eyes of all.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
‘People only see what they’re expecting to see.’
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man’s intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. Hiram Powers (1805–1873)
Why, this gives me the creeps a bit
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind. Desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth.
‘Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. Even the things you think you know.’
