Concealment Quotes
39 quotes by 37 authors
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Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should overhear what He…
— Samuel Logan Brengle
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A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
— John Burroughs
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Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
— Charles M. Blow
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of…
— Douglas Coupland
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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about…
— Richard Posner
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All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and…
— Edwin M. Stanton
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there…
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
— June Jordan
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by…
— Adam Weishaupt
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the…
— Jostein Gaarder
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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
— Mark Twain
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
— Sallust
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There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger…
— John F. Kennedy
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This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers…
— Leonard Cohen
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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol…
— Thomas Carlyle
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
— Seneca the Younger
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I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise…
— Grover Cleveland
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For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.
— Epicurus
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