The hidden soul of harmony. [ Milton ]
The malevolent have hidden teeth. [ Publius Syrus ]
Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity. [ John Weiss ]
Dark error's other hidden side is truth. [ Victor Hugo ]
The cause is hidden, but the result known. [ Ovid ]
Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden. [ Pascal ]
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;
But gold that's put to use more gold begets. [ William Shakespeare ]
Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart. [ Crabbe ]
There is great force hidden in a sweet command. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Let those who hope for brighter shores no more,
Not mourn, but turning inland, bravely seek
What hidden wealth redeems the shapeless shore. [ Eugene Lee Hamilton ]
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring. [ Lucan ]
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]
Real motives, however seemingly apparent, are still hidden. [ Alfred Mercier ]
The moss-clad violet, fragrant and concealed like hidden charity. [ J. F. Hollings ]
Feeling is deep and still, and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy that betrays where the anchor is hidden. [ Longfellow ]
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave. [ Lowell ]
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. [ Henri Beyle ]
The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. [ Victor Hugo ]
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. [ Colton ]
Wrinkles of the face may be successfully hidden by art; not so with the wrinkles of the heart. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]
Like other plants, virtue will not grow unless its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun. [ Carlyle ]
Our globe discovers its hidden virtues, not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses. [ Emerson ]
Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will conceal and cover up what is now shining with the greatest splendor. [ Horace ]
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. [ Tupper ]
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action. [ Dryden ]
The more mysterious love is, the more strength it has; the more it is secret, the more it increases; the more hidden, the plainer shown. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning. [ Joubert ]
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. [ Robert Collyer ]
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength; there is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage. [ Hazlitt ]
Poetry is musical thought, thought of a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of a thing, detected the melody that lies hidden in it, ... the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. [ Carlyle ]
Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impious creatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweet reconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! that the wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteous man, and the righteousness of one justify a host of sinners! [ Justin Martyr ]
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]