Quotes with hides

  • Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
  • But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

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  • Meister Eckhart A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Thomas Dekker A mask of gold hides all deformities.
    Thomas Dekker
    English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572 - 1632)
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  • Horace As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • John Milton But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Georges Bataille Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Virgil Fame hides her head among the clouds.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Louis de Bernieres God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Homer Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • John Milton He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Homer I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • André Malraux Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Euripides Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • William Hazlitt One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Josh Billings The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • James Baldwin The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Philip Roth The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
    The Plot Against America (2004)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • James Reston Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
    James Reston
    In Holland born, American journalist (1909 - 1995)
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