You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Confucius
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To be rather than to seem.
[Lat., Esse quam videri.]
Aeschylus
Quotes , Source: Siege of Thebes
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Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower
Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Song of Solomon (ch. 7, v. 4)
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Everything is not gold that one sees shining.
[Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.]
Freire Denise Cordelier
Quotes , Source: Li Diz de freire Denise Cordelier (circa 1300)
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He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul,
biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a
passage through it.
Thomas Fuller
Quotes , Source: Life of the Duke of Alva
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Hellen Keller
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
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Handsome is that handsome does.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. I), also see Henry Fielding
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
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Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
Dame Edith Sitwell
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Aeschylus
Quotes , Source: Siege of Thebes
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Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
Bible
Quotes , Source: John (ch. VII, v. 24)
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like
unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward,
but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Matthew (ch. XXIII, v. 27)
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O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: To a Louse
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But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes , Source: The Canterbury Tales (preamble, l. 17,362), The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
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Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no
knight.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes , Source: Testament of Love (bk. II), (Thomas Usk, Chaucer's contemporary, is generally accepted as author)
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Appearances to save, his only care;
So things seem right, no matter what they are.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: The Rosciad (l. 299)
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