Source: The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”
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Jonathan Swift
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The Battle of the Books
The Battle of the Books, preface (1704)
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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745Related quotes
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Vol. I, ch. 2.
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Context: The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
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Source: Savonarola (1881), Girolamo Savonarola in Act I, sc. iv; p. 49.
2 Corinthians 3: 17-18
Variant translations:
Jehovah is the Spirit, and where the spirit of Jehovah is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3: 17 NWT
Second Epistle to the Corinthians
“I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.”
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“The fairest face that ever yet
Look'd in a wave as in a glass”
Joaquin Miller
(1837–1913) American judge
IV, p. 24.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)
Context: p>These be but men. We may forget
The wild sea-king, the tawny brave,
The frowning wold, the woody shore,
The tall-built, sunburnt men of Mars...But what and who was she, the fair?
The fairest face that ever yet
Look'd in a wave as in a glass;
That look'd as look the still, far stars,
So woman-like, into the wave
To contemplate their beauty there,
Yet look as looking anywhere?</p