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• Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

  Salman Rushdie

  Song, Baby, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.

  Kate Beckinsale

  War, Eye, Vampire

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• Words can crush things that are unseen.

  Jewel

  Love, Crush, Dream

  Song: I'm Sensitive, Album: Pieces Of You, 1995

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• There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

  Denis Norden

  Car, Bird, Force

  Frank Muir, Denis Norden (1984). “The utterly ultimate 'My word!' collection”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Blessing

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• Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"

  Dexter Kozen

  Halloween, Years, Voice

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• The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Light, History

  Walter Bagehot (2010). “Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Darkness, Criticism

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.4, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

  Eugenie Clark

  Appreciate, Use, Research

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• We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

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• Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.

  Lee Boyd Malvo

  People, Truth Is, Truth Be Told

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• Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Obscurity, World

  'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700)

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• There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

  Woody Allen

  Witty, New York, Humorous

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Heart, Two

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• There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.

  Leonard Susskind

  Philosophy, Science, Reality

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• Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Healing, Teens, World

  Francis Pharcellus Church (2009). “Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa”, p.16, Delacorte Press

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• To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Godly, Secret, Foundation

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• If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.

  Vanna Bonta

  Stars, Ocean, Night

  "Rewards of Passion: Sheer Poetry". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

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• The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Our Lives, Unheard

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• A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.

  Andrew Loomis

  Sides, Feels

  Andrew Loomis (2017). “Drawing the head & hands”, p.24, EDITORA BIBLIOMUNDI SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA

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• The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

  George R. R. Martin

  Enemy

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1172, Bantam

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• She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

  Martial

  Grief, Grieving, Sincerely

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• Step into the light. Unseen forces are cheering you on.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Cheer, Light, Steps

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• A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Flower, Gay

  Edgar Allan Poe (2009). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.314, Cosimo, Inc.

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