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All precious things discovered lateTo those that seek them issue forth, For Love in sequel works with Fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
In solitude, struggles occur that no one else knows about. Inner battles are fought here that seldom become fodder for sermons or illustrations for books. God, who probes our deepest thoughts during protracted segments of solitude, opens our eyes to things that need attention. It is here He makes us aware of those things we try to hide from others.
- Charles Swindoll
I've had only two regular women. I liked the small breakable thing inside each one. Whatever their personality, smarts, or looks, something soft lay inside each. Like a bird's breastbone, shaped and chosen to wish on. A little V, thinner than bone and lightly hinged, that I could break with a forefinger if I wanted to, but never did. Want to, I mean. Knowing it was there, hiding from me, was enough.
- Toni Morrison
Either the pavement was burning or she had sapphires hidden in her shoes. K.D., who had never seen a woman mince or switch like that, believed it was the walk that caused all the trouble.
- Toni Morrison
Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
- George Lucas
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.
- Marcus Aurelius
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
- John Updike
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
- St. Augustine
a compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
- Victor Hugo
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
- Victor Hugo
Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don't Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?
- Carl Sagan
You have but noted his fair cheek. A man-trap may be under his fine ruddy-tipped daisies.
- Herman Melville