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• I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance.  But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

  Piet Mondrian

  Beautiful, Lying, Flower

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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• Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
  [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
  Celata virtus.]

  Horace

  Character, Excellence, Littles

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• A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.

  Horace

  Dresses, Cups, Honestly

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• Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Would Be, Human Nature

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• A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

  Joseph Addison

  Education, Wise, Art

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.96

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• No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Deceit, Courtesy

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• If I should die, think only this of me:
  That there's some corner of a foreign field
  That is forever England. There shall be
  In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
  A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
  Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
  A body of England's, breathing English air,
  Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Book, Home

  'The Soldier' (1914)

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• Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

  Ovid

  Heart, Fire, Sorrow

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• In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Flower, Grief

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.33

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• Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.

  Leigh Hunt

  Loss, Sorrow, Tears

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• Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

  John Dryden

  Secret, Favors, Fairy

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• there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!

  Margaret Deland

  Lying, Silence, Grace

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• The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.

  Marguerite Duras

  Death, Brother, Grief

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• Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Struggle, Opportunity, People

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• All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Death, Order, Dying

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• The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

  Sue Grafton

  Stars, Memories, Dark

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.28, Macmillan

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• The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Done, Riches

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• Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fear, Coward, Insult

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• One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friends, Art, War

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.628

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• Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Covered Up, People

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• In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

  Pliny the Elder

  Powerful, Military, Often Is

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• I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park - Central Park is a much safer place.

  John Thune

  New York, Central Park, Parks

  "John Thune vs. Central Park UPDATE". www.politico.com. July 22, 2009.

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• If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

  Ovid

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.

  John William Draper

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled or concealed; second, that there is no ground for the view that Christianity is the only alternative to communism, or that there can be no sound character training that is not based on religion; and, third, I want to make some practical suggestions to the parents who are not believers, on what they should tell the children about God, and what sort of moral training they should give them.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Children, Character, Men

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