#appearance

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything. ↗

— John Irving

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Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. ↗

— Aesop

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When I am tanned and in shape I feel confident about my appearance. ↗

— Peter Andre

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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire. ↗

— Douglas Bader

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And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

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