An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Behavior,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 5
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Based on a course of lectures, "The Conduct of Life," delivered in Pittsburg (1851-03).
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Most air crew take for granted the spurious moral absolution conferred upon those who escape eye contact with the people whom they kill.
Max Hastings (b. 1945) British journalist and military historian
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy (2018)
