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The EYES are the window of the soul
The variant form
the face is the index of the mind
is among those also exemplified below. Cf. CICERO
Orator
lx.
ut imago est animi voltus sic indices oculi
, the face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter; L.
vultus est index animi
(also
oculus animi index
), the face (also, eye) is the index of the mind.
1545
Regiment of Life
14
The eyes .. are the wyndowes of the mynde, for both ioye & anger .. are seene .. through them.
a
1575
Nehemiah
(1585) i.
The affections of the minde declare them selues openlie in the face.
1601
Cynthia's Revels
D3
V
I can refell [refute] that Paradox .. of those, which hold the face to be the Index of the minde.
1781
in et al.
Adams Family Correspondence
(1973) IV. 215
I did not study the Eye that best Index to the mind.
1864
Trevlyn Hold
I. i.
You have not to learn that the face is the outward index of the mind within.
1940
Scott of Antarctic
II. 48
The eye, which is the reflector of the external world, is also the mirror of the soul within.
1979
Omega Factor
iii.
If the old saying, the eyes are the window of the soul, were true then this young girl had misplaced her soul.
1985
Shadow Kills
xviii.
I .. thought, they say the eyes are the portals of the soul. Are they likewise the portals of madness?
1997
Windows Magazine
Feb. 205
If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the monitor is the window to your system.
appearance, significant
the face is the index of the mind
is among those also exemplified below. Cf. CICERO
Orator
lx.
ut imago est animi voltus sic indices oculi
, the face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter; L.
vultus est index animi
(also
oculus animi index
), the face (also, eye) is the index of the mind.
1545Regiment of Life
14
The eyes .. are the wyndowes of the mynde, for both ioye & anger .. are seene .. through them.
a
1575
Nehemiah
(1585) i.
The affections of the minde declare them selues openlie in the face.
1601
Cynthia's Revels
D3
V
I can refell [refute] that Paradox .. of those, which hold the face to be the Index of the minde.
1781
in et al.
Adams Family Correspondence
(1973) IV. 215
I did not study the Eye that best Index to the mind.
1864
Trevlyn Hold
I. i.
You have not to learn that the face is the outward index of the mind within.
1940
Scott of Antarctic
II. 48
The eye, which is the reflector of the external world, is also the mirror of the soul within.
1979
Omega Factor
iii.
If the old saying, the eyes are the window of the soul, were true then this young girl had misplaced her soul.
1985
Shadow Kills
xviii.
I .. thought, they say the eyes are the portals of the soul. Are they likewise the portals of madness?
1997
Windows Magazine
Feb. 205
If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the monitor is the window to your system.
appearance, significant
F
face
FACT is stranger than fiction
An alliterative version of
TRUTH is stranger than fiction
.
1853
Sam Slick's Wise Saws
5
Facts are stranger than fiction, for things happen sometimes that never entered into the mind of man to imagine or invent.
1881
Arcady for Better or Worse
iii.
I have no desire to convince the world that .. in this .. case fact is stranger than fiction. But the following instance of Mr. Chowne's ‘cunning’ may be verified.
1910
Studies in Religion & Theology
II. v.
Forgetting the fact which is stranger than fiction, that the sagest man in the theory of State may be the unwisest man in statecraft.
1929
Copper Bottle
64
Facts may be stranger than fiction,.. but fiction is generally truer than facts.
1980
Christian Science monitor
30 May B3
Some of the research seems almost eerie to the outsider, covering some genuine fact-is-stranger-than-fiction ground.
reality and illusion
TRUTH is stranger than fiction
.
1853Sam Slick's Wise Saws
5
Facts are stranger than fiction, for things happen sometimes that never entered into the mind of man to imagine or invent.
1881
Arcady for Better or Worse
iii.
I have no desire to convince the world that .. in this .. case fact is stranger than fiction. But the following instance of Mr. Chowne's ‘cunning’ may be verified.
1910
Studies in Religion & Theology
II. v.
Forgetting the fact which is stranger than fiction, that the sagest man in the theory of State may be the unwisest man in statecraft.
1929
Copper Bottle
64
Facts may be stranger than fiction,.. but fiction is generally truer than facts.
1980
Christian Science monitor
30 May B3
Some of the research seems almost eerie to the outsider, covering some genuine fact-is-stranger-than-fiction ground.
reality and illusionFACTS are stubborn things
1732Liberty & Progress
ii.
Plain matters of fact are terrible stubborn things.
1749
Continuation of Essay on Field Husbandry
20
Facts are stubborn things.
1866
Cradock Nowell
III. vi.
Facts, however, are stubborn things, and will not even make a bow to the sweetest of young ladies.
1942
Murder is Out
xxvii.
You're .. too intelligent to think that suggestion would have any weight with a jury …Facts are stubborn things.
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