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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems! - Robert Southey Gold all is not that doth golden seem. - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (bk. II, canto VIII, st. 14) Will she pass in a crowd? Will she make a figure in a country church? - Jonathan Swift, Letter to Stella She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. - Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue I) A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality. - Marguerite de Valois An immense, misshapen, marvelous monster whose eye is out. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (III, 658) Of the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all, that we may-be deluded, That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only. May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters, The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known. - Walt Whitman, Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances A man of sense can artifice disdain, As men of wealth may venture to go plain. . . . . I find the fool when I behold the screen, For 'tis the wise man's interest to be seen. - Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire II, l. 193) Displaying page 4 of 4 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 [4]
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