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The mirror of all Christian kings.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Chorus, in Henry V, act 2, prologue, l. 6.
Praising Henry V as the model for all kings.)
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Speech is the mirror of the soul.
(Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.), Roman writer of mimes. Sententiae, no. 1073.)
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A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews [sic] the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.
(Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783-1842), French novelist. The Red and the Black, ch. XL, Levavasseur (1831), trans C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1943.)
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Bring us the mirror, you ignorant thing, and be sure not to sully the image by the transmission of your reflection!
(Moliθre [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673), French comic playwright. Cathos to a servant, in Les Prιcieuses Ridicules, sc. 6 (1659).)
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The world is the mirror of myself dying.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "Third or Fourth Day of Spring," Black Spring (1936).)
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The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
(Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist. "Of the Education of Children," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 26, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).)
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smashing the windows of sleep and dream
smashing the windows of history
a whiteness scattering
in hailstones
each a mirror
for man's eyes.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "During the Eichmann Trial.")
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For life is the mirror of king and slave—
(Madeline Bridges (fl. C. 1840), U.S. poet. Life's Mirror (l. 17). . ;
pseudonym of Mary Ainge de Vere World's Best Loved Poems, The. James Gilchrist Lawson, comp. (1927) Harper & Row.)
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