“ There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
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“ If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. ”
- Émile Zola- Copy
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“ There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. ”
- J. J. Procter- Copy
- 1K
“ Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. ”
- Nikita Khrushchev- Copy
- 3K
“ Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ”
- William Osler- Copy
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“ One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats — and one always secretes too much jelly. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ”
- George William Russell- Copy
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“ The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits. ”
- Antonio Machado- Copy
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“ I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten, even by God. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ Thou wear a lion's hide! Doff it for shame,And hang a calfskin on those recreant limbs. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book… ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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“ When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
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“ Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. ”
- Margaret Cho- Copy
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“ I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise. ”
- Gustav Mahler- Copy
- 290
“ Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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