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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.

  Prentice Mulford

  Love, Positive, Real

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “Your Forces and How to Use Them (Six Volumes - Complete Edition): New Thought Empowerment - From the Author of Thoughts are Things, The God in You, Gift of Spirit and The Gift of Understanding”, p.562, e-artnow

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• People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Believe, People, Return

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.18, Penguin

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• I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man.

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Men, Secret

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 9: "The Scroll Marked II," p. 58, 1968.

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

  William James

  Order, Grace, Harmony

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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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• Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Heart, Unseen Things

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.466, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite.

  William E. Jenner

  Mean, Nwo, World Government

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• Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

  William Morris

  Memories, Flower, Moving

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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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• Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Home, Profound, Dying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Moving

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.148, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

  Steven Pressfield

  Serendipity, Purpose, Causes

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Believe, Inspiration, Cynical

  "How to believe in yourself - even if you sometimes don't" by Jeffrey Eugenides, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2012.

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