Appearances Quotes

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Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the wor

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Inspirational Humility Ceo Class Greatness Judgment King Doctor Appearances Humble Judge Hard Work Being Heard Judgmental

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is st

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.

William Shakespeare

Religion Law Virtue Vice Appearances Falsehood Ornament Pretense

All that glisters is not gold;Often have you heard that told

All that glisters is not gold;Often have you heard that told:Many a man his life hath soldBut my outside to behold:Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

William Shakespeare

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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Labels Appearances Values Institutions

Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weigh

Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.

William Shakespeare

Beauty Appearances Falsehood Ornament Pretense

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for bo

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

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