Appear Quotes

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If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear. — Benjamin Franklin
If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right. — Sydney J. Harris
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in… — William James
Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than… — Joseph Addison
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,… — Samuel Johnson
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines… — Samuel Johnson
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. — Thomas Carlyle
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in… — Michelangelo
The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night. — Gautama Buddha
In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere… — Leonardo da Vinci
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth… — John Milton
A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear… — Epictetus
Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were… — Billy Graham
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear? — Francis Quarles
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to… — Bertrand Russell
It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than… — Jane Austen
Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. — Robinson Jeffers
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose... — Claude Monet
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas. — Salvador Dali

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