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• For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Doors, Hands

  Charles Dickens, Matty Groves (2004). “The Chimes”, p.2, Quiet River Press LLC

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• ... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?

  Frances Wright

  Education, Wise, Religious

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• Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

  William Hazlitt

  Family, Running, Blood

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics

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• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Cheer, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1908, Delphi Classics

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• My soul is an entangled knot,
  Upon a liquid vortex wrought
  By Intellect in the Unseen residing,
  And thine doth like a convict sit,
  With marline-spike untwisting it,
  Only to find its knottiness abiding;
  Since all the tools for its untying
  In four-dimensional space are lying,
  Wherein they fancy intersperses
  Long avenues of universes,
  While Klein and Clifford fill the void
  With one finite, unbounded homoloid,
  And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Lying, Thinking, Space

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• The new ground that you form in your living is a new self, a new self that isn't at all of the middle ground, a lived-in self that has no need of middle ground. That new self makes unseen reality within seen.

  John de Ruiter

  Reality, Self, Needs

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• All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Men, Unseen Things, Wavering

  James Freeman Clarke (1875). “Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays”, p.339

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• Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Feelings, Done, Philosopher

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• A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Government, World, Form

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• I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hands, Ifs

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “How Right You Are, Jeeves”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Dark, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.

  Denise Levertov

  Women, Home, Eagles

  Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

  Henry James

  Judging, Pieces, May

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12972, Delphi Classics

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• Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection from unexpected circumstances and unseen dangers. Just the thought of good angels hovering around us gives people a feeling of safety!

  Gary Kinnaman

  Angel, People, Safety

  Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

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• I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.

  Carol Grace

  Lying, Self, Doe

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• We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.

  John Richard Reid

  Opportunity, Healthy, Scales

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• It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.

  Ibn Arabi

  Eye, Faces, Worship

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• Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Florida, Spirit, Everglades

  T. J. MacGregor (1990). “Kin Dread”, Fawcett Books

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• what is seen must always be the outcome of much that is unseen.

  H. A. Guerber

  Outcomes, Invisibility

  H. A. Guerber (1909). “Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• The nimble lie
  Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
  We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
  Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
  And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
  Till it has reached the goal.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Truth, Lying, Moving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

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• At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

  John Milton

  Stars, Heaven, Birth

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.471, Mercer University Press

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• God, who oft descends to visit men
  Unseen, and through their habitations walks
  To mark their doings.

  John Milton

  God, Men, Mark

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.522

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• What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Moving, Size, Connections

  Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

  Rumi

  Essence, Roots, World

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• The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

  Frank Laubach

  Growing Up, Hands, Missionary

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.9, SPCK

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