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«Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession»
Author: Isaac Watts
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appearances, depth, hover, hovered, hovers, penetrate, relate, surface, surface of, take up
«Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath»
Author: Jacob Braude
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«Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface»
Author: James Bryant Conant
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Behavior
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below, corrupt, intrinsically, irritate, irritates, superficially, surface
«All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.»
Author: Judith Crist
(Critic)
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criticize, criticizes, indifference, loves, pleasantry, Strangers, surface, surfaced, surfaces
«After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one [what women want]. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.»
Author: Mel Gibson
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women
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«Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.»
«Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.»
«All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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absolute, abstraction, beauties, contain, creamed, creams, does not exist, element, emotions, eternal, forms, general, manifestation, particular, phenomena, surface, surface of, The Absolute, The Cream, The Eternal, The General, transitory
«Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below»
«All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.»
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