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Blindness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!— COLLEY CIBBER — The Blind Boy.

None so blind as those that will not see.— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries.

Jeremiah XX. Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. 17. L. 730.

C. Pope's trans. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of day.— MILTON — Samson Agonistes. L. 80.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!— MILTON — Samson Agonistes. L. 67.

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.— MILTON — Sonnet XXII. L. 1.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit;— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. VI. L. 36.

He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 238.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.— SWIFT — Polite Conversation.

Dialogue III. And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains-alas! too few.— WORDSWORTH — Scorn Not the Sonnet;

Critic, You Have Frowned.