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  • There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

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  • Jean de la Fontaine Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • John Bunyan If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Beatrix Potter All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Edward Gibbon Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Jonathan Miller Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical patriarchy their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Koldyke From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.
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  • William Hazlitt Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry van Dyke Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • James A. Froude Human improvement is from within outward.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
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    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Theodore Parker Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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