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source: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.49, Google Publishing

topic: Dream, Reality, Brain, Deranged, Whole Picture

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

- Jonathan Kozol

topic: Teacher, New York, Children, Semblance

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

- Nora Ephron

source: Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.97, Vintage

topic: Feminism, Consciousness, Illusion, Semblance

From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

source: "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 5,

topic: Eye, Moon, Sky, Prescriptions, Semblance

The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.189, Penguin

topic: Reality, Ideas, Savages, Semblance, Slough

We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.

- Don Feder

source: Don Feder (1993). “A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America”, Vital Issues Pr

topic: Christian, Religious, School, Happy Hour, Beirut

But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.

- Stefan Zweig

topic: Truth, Heroic Deeds, Humanity, Mere Mortals, Semblance

If I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no, I think it's impossible [to maintain that], for one thing. I don't think anyone can do that, apart from Denzel Washington. It's a strange place that the film industry is at, where you can just play superhero after superhero.

- Robert Pattinson

topic: Nice, Thinking, Play, Denzel, Film Industry

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

- John Ruskin

topic: Animal, Promise, Delight, Semblance

Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!

- William James

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 564, 1895.

topic: Reality, Voice, Discipline, Semblance

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Lying, Deceit, Courtesy, Semblance

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

- Katherine Paterson

topic: Book, Writing, Thinking, Orderliness, Semblance

By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

- Washington Irving

source: Washington Irving (1897). “The Works of Washington Irving...: Illustrated”

topic: Kindness, Eye, Discipline, Emanate, Semblance

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

- John Sterling

source: John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.128

topic: Hands, Arbitrary, Superstitions, Semblance

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

- William Cowper

topic: Delight, Misery, Cases, Semblance

Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.

- Miles Franklin

topic: Bullying, Mean, Men, Semblance

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.255

topic: Fashion, Sacrifice, Shade, Ostentation, Worshippers

The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies of ostentatious greatness. But when they lost even the semblance of those virtues which were derived from their ancient freedom, the simplicity of Roman manners was insensibly corrupted by the stately affectation of the courts of Asia.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Pride, Greatness, Vanity, Ostentatious, Semblance

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Ambition, Reality, Men, Semblance

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion....

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Civilization, Together, Illusion, Manifold, Uprooting

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

- Lillian B. Rubin

topic: Insulting, Poverty, Rich, Affluent, Semblance

One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

source: Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.40

topic: Adherence, Principles, Reckless, Semblance

An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

topic: Reality, Space, Brain, Vibrate, Daguerreotypes

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

source: Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Birthmark (Unabridged): A Dark Romantic Story on Obsession with Human Perfection From the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House with the Seven Gables” & “Twice-Told Tales” (Including Biography)”, p.76, e-artnow

topic: Wish, World, Might, Semblance

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