Concealment Quote by Fanny Burney Download Open image “Concealment is the foe of tranquility.” — Fanny Burney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concealment Foe Peace Tranquility
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
“There is no virtue in concealment. When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
“Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man is ever… — Inazo Nitobe Copy Share Image
“Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“if a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity” — Epicurus Copy Share Image
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, Imagination took the reins; and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to the race… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. The” — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment. — Horace Copy Share Image
For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
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