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To be rather than to seem.

Aeschylus Topic: Appearance

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Aeschylus Topic: Appearance

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Bible Topic: Appearance

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Bible Topic: Appearance

Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

Bible Topic: Appearance

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion!

Robert Burns Topic: Appearance

Think not I am what I appear.

Lord Byron Topic: Appearance

As large as life, and twice as natural.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Appearance

All that glisters is not gold.

Cervantes Topic: Appearance

But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.

Geoffrey Chaucer Topic: Appearance

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

Geoffrey Chaucer Topic: Appearance

Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.

Geoffrey Chaucer Topic: Appearance

Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.

Charles Churchill Topic: Appearance

Everything is not gold that one sees shining.

Freire Denise Cordelier Topic: Appearance

We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. - Dr. John Donne,

Dr John Donne Topic: Appearance

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

John Dryden Topic: Appearance

The habit does not make the monk.

John Dryden Topic: Appearance

Handsome is that handsome does.

Henry Fielding Topic: Appearance

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Thomas Fuller Topic: Appearance

By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.

John Gay Topic: Appearance

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