#disguise

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise. ↗

— John Webster

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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them. ↗

— Larry Hagman

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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still. ↗

— Thomas More

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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

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