#conceal

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles. ↗

— Origen

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ↗

— St. Jerome

#friendship #never #ought #thinks #true

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#american people #conceal #facts #people #purpose

Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated. ↗

— Louis Stokes

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