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#conceal

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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.


A. E. Housman


#american #conceal #cunning #diabolical #every

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.


Max Jacob


#despair #expression #found #having #his

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.


Lucan


#death #endure #gods #happiness #life

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.


Busta Rhymes


#conceal #could #escape #exposes #hip-hop

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.


Criss Jami


#conceal #equality #evil #expose #good

The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like treasure in a cave.


Jody Shields


#fig #fruit #fruit-tree #mystery #nature

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.


Jane Austen


#clichés #concealment #empowerment #feminism #ignorance

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.


Voltaire


#speech #thoughts #men

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?


H.D.


#doolittle #h-d #hilda #modernism #poetry

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.


Joseph Addison


#communicate #concealed #critic #discover #dwell






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