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Concealed Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they…
- Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
- Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is…
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- As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point… — Blaise Pascal
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from… — Samuel Johnson
- Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators,… — Ambrose Bierce
- Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton
- The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within… — Dalai Lama