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• The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Cheer, Teaching

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.182

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• The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Mean, Perfection

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• Always scorn appearances and you always may.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Scorn

  Ralph Emerson (2014). “Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self-Reliance: Advice, Wit, and Wisdom from the Father of Transcendentalism”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Practice, Astonishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.95

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• Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

  Confucius

  Chinese, Fine Words, Vices

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.117

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• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Religious, Nature

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.758, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Angel, Men

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• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Summer, Falling In Love, Fun

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Heart, Past

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, Sacrifice, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Love, Funny, Girl

  Quoted in Helen Handley, The Lover's Quotation Book (1986)

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• Honor to those who in the life they lead
  define and guard a Thermopylae.
  Never betraying what is right,
  consistent and just in all they do
  but showing pity also, and compassion;
  generous when they are rich, and when they are poor,
  still generous in small ways,
  still helping as much as they can;
  always speaking the truth,
  yet without hating those who lie.
  And even more honor is due to them
  when they foresee (as many do foresee)
  that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance,
  that the Medes will break through after all.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Badass, Lying, Hate

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Thermopylae”

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• It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Soul, Good Work, Should

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• Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.

  Charles Babbage

  Art, Character, Science

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

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• Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Death, Science, Average

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.100, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.

  William Whewell

  Real, Acceptance, Science

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• The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it ; and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.

  John Stuart Mill

  Confused, Real, Science

  John Stuart Mill (1856). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.16

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• We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Science, Vocabulary

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• For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble sublimeness, that the Lord of the Universe, the Divine Son of God, should stoop as to hide Himself under the appearance of bread for our salvation! Behold the humble way of God, my brothers. Therefore, do not hold yourselves to be anything of yourselves, so that you may be entirely acceptable to One Who gives Himself entirely to you.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Humility, Humble

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• There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Inspiration, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Honesty, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.111, Coyote Canyon Press

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• To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Judging, People, Wonder

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

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• We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sympathy, Wise, Emotional

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• To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.

  Hermione Gingold

  Dog, Loss, Perfect

  Hermione Gingold (1958). “The world is square”

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• The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Philosophy, Small Numbers, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.110

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