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• This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Reality, Intellectual

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• What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Lying, Eye, Men

  "Blue Highways". Book by William Least Heat-Moon, 1982.

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• There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.

  Robert Silverberg

  Believe, Taken, Soul

  Robert Silverberg (1984). “Lord of Darkness”, Bantam

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• There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Consciousness, Range

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• Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

  Martin Luther

  Wagers, Goodness, Joyous

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• No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

  Coco Chanel

  Accessories, Unforgettable, Elegance

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• The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

  Rumi

  Laughter, Rain, Lightning

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• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Hero, Eye, Feet

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• [Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

  William James

  Order, Grace, Harmony

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• When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

  Ann Voskamp

  Heart, Focus, Mind

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• Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Law, Realism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Achievement

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.

  Bob Proctor

  Believe, Blessing, Vision

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 31, 2013

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• Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Summer, Tombstone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.607

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• During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A few individuals may appear to have no trials at all, which, if it were so, would be a trial in itself. Indeed, if, as do trees, our souls had rings to measure the years of greatest personal growth, the wide rings would likely reflect the years of greatest moisture-but from tears, not rainfall.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Years, Tree

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• It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.

  Francois Jacob

  Science, Giving, Association

  François Jacob, Nadine Peyrieras, Michel Morange (2002). “Travaux scientifiques de François Jacob”, p.709, Odile Jacob

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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• Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

  Augustus Hare

  Nature, Travel, Church

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• Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

  James Montgomery

  Memories, Night, Years

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1829). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One Volume”, p.171

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• I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don’t ever have to be responsible for your own behavior.

  Harlan Ellison

  Believe, Silly, Thinking

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• One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

  Martin Amis

  Children, Father, Selfishness

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• There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.

  William Eggleston

  Mind, Doe, Projects

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Hands, Secret

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• O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Noses, Faces

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1858). “Shakespere's Werke”, p.28

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• An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.

  Christilot Hanson-Boylen

  Horse, Wire, Pressure

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