Concealed Quotes
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Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Sophocles -
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.
Eudora Welty
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For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.
Thomas Hobbes -
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
Claudio Magris -
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
Rumi -
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
Blaise Pascal -
Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.
Charles Darling -
A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
Victor Hugo
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
Neil Postman -
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal -
I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.
Arthur Tress -
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
Seneca the Younger -
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
Seneca the Younger -
It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.
Nicholas Davies
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore de Balzac -
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
Claudius Claudianus -
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Thomas Hardy