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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before, Others, Ourselves

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unless, Gods, Annoys

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

May, Made, Whole

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Small, Free

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing, Desire, Natural

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Poetry, Thoughts, Almost

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
Orson Welles

Solid, Permanent, Untenable

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker

Wish, Actually, Foolish

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Alan Dundes

Why, Light, Speak

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno

God, Yourself, May

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson

Dreams, Seems, Seldom

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
Homer

True, Friends, Less

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Strong, Revenge, Human

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
Moliere

Talk, Speak, Pray

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry A. Kissinger

Office, Longer, Infallible

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Alan Watts

Find, Study, Zen

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Courage, Care, Energy

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede

Knowledge, Wisdom, Words

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams

Good, Mind, Feeling

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Jean Paul

Death, Evening, Lovely

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry

Women, Great, Men

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana

Worse, Modern, Argument

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Poetry, Thoughts, Almost

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe

Soul, Body, Diamond

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert

Themselves, Create, Profound

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
Anne Lamott

Family, Ignorance, May

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee Williams

Confidence, Wine, Noon

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Baltasar Gracian

Hero, Rather, Aspire

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
Oliver Stone

Beauty, Work, Beautiful

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