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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
john webster— Act V, scene vi.
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
christopher fry— Time, New York, April 3, 1950
So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition; Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one and crowned with one crest.
william shakespeare— A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act III, scene 2, line 208.
A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
joseph alleine— P. 540. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Now, as discord is allowable, and even necessarily opposed to concord, why may not noise, or a seeming jargon, be opposed to fixed sounds and harmonical proportion? Some of the discords in modern music, unknown till this century, are what the ear can but just bear, but have a very good effect as to contrast. The severe laws of preparing and resolving discord, may be too much adhered to for great effect; I am convinced that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it.
charles burney— The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) pp. 152-3
Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for.
james freeman clarke— P. 106. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
john kenneth galbraith— Chapter 12, p. 328
They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Oliver Goldsmith— Line 265.
Dr. Peter effectively destroys examples of seeming exceptions and is rather convincing that his principle is ubiquitous.
— Lawrence Lipsitz, Editor (1973) The Process of Innovation in Education. p. 26
I fill this cup to one made upOf loveliness alone,A woman, of her gentle sexThe seeming paragon;To whom the better elementsAnd kindly stars have givenA form so fair, that, like the air,'Tis less of earth than heaven.
edward coote pinkney— A Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Patience, to hear frivolous, impertinent, and unreasonable applications: with address enough to refuse, without offending; or, by your manner of granting, to double the obligation: dexterity enough to conceal a truth, without telling a lie: sagacity enough to read other people’s countenances: and serenity enough not to let them discover anything by yours; a seeming frankness, with a real reserve. These are the rudiments of a politician; the world must be your grammar.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield— January 15, 1748.
They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764), Line 265.
The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness.
meher baba— 43 : Toys in the Divine Game, p. 70
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.
george orwell— Review of Indian Mosaic by Mark Channing, in The Listener (15 July 1936)
Fellini was a hugely original spirit, a bona fide gagman, the king of contradiction, a well-oiled motor mouth -- in short, anything except a thinker. He needed the interviews and the media because it was during these seeming exercises in vanity that he discovered things about himself. If you pushed him hard enough, he would come up with ideas that surprised even him.
damian pettigrew— On Federico Fellini’s narcissism, in The Los Angeles Times (April 2003)
I see them as they are to is And not the seeming isness of the was.
sun ra— "The Differences" (1970), p. 132
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
alexis de tocqueville— Book One, Chapter XXI
We saw a raven very high above us. It called out, and the dome of the sky seemed to echo the sound. It called again and again as it flew onwards, and the mountains gave back the sound, seeming as if from their centre; a musical bell-like answering to the bird's hoarse voice.
dorothy wordsworth— July 27, 1800Cf. Wordsworth's The Excursion, Book 4, lines 1175-87.
Fellini was a hugely original spirit, a bona fide gagman, the king of contradiction, a well-oiled motor mouth -- in short, anything except a thinker. He needed the interviews and the media because it was during these seeming exercises in vanity that he discovered things about himself. If you pushed him hard enough, he would come up with ideas that surprised even him.
— On Federico Fellini’s narcissism, in The Los Angeles Times (April 2003)
The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.
— Max Müller, p. 287. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming; it had been vicious To have mistrusted her.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act V, scene 5, line 63.
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.
— Attributed to Dr. Laud by Bacon, Apothegms, No. 273.
Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
Wentworth Dillon— Wentworth Dillon, Essay on Translated Verse, line 216.
Even the seeming remoteness of Pythagorean teaching helps one to realize that the current world view, while it seems destined to dominate the planet, is fleeting and temporary and, like others before it, will pass.
— John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook. (1999) Divine Harmony : The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras.
A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
— Joseph Alleine, p. 540. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity : all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Xenophones
What Nature has writ with her lusty wit Is worded so wisely and kindly That whoever has dipped in her manuscript Must up and follow her blindly. Now the summer prime is her blithest rhyme In the being and the seeming, And they that have heard the overword Know life's a dream worth dreaming.
— William Ernest Henley, Echoes, XXXIII
Every one fault seeming monstrous, till his fellow fault came to match it.
— Rosalind, Sc. ii
