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• It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Success, Trying, Mosaics

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

  Todd Solondz

  Hate, Dark, People

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Important, Volume, Extremes

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• You've been hurt before, I can
  see it in your eyes. You try to
  smile it away, some things you
  can't disguise.

  Demi Lovato

  Hurt, Eye, Trying

  Song: Give Your Heart A Break, Album: Unbroken, 2011

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• Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

  Beverly Cleary

  Friendship, Book, Boys

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• I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.

  Paul Putner

  Real, Fans, Might

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• There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Inspirational, Long

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 70, 1678.

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• What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fake People, Humor

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• Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Men, Speech, Parole

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.13, Penguin

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• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

  William Hazlitt

  Quality, Use, Good Intentions

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.29

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• I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

  Rupert Grint

  Sometimes, Really Cool, Certain

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• That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.

  Jim Carrey

  Real, War, Lying

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• Hills are speedwork in disguise.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Personality, Youth, Periods

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• Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

  Thomas Moore

  Wise, Wisdom, Bondage

  Thomas Moore (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated)”, p.820, Delphi Classics

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• Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

  Dana Carvey

  Turtles, Clubs, Enough

  "The Master of Disguise". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Morning, Blessed, Son

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• The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Pride, Opportunity

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• Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Eye, Media

  Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

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• Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wisdom, Fun, Discipline

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.220, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

  Gustav Mahler

  Assuming, Never Assume

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• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weed, Flower, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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