Trust not to outward show. [ Juvenal ]
By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated. [ Gay ]
Our enemies are our outward consciences. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
Outward acts betray the secret intention. [ Law Max ]
Guards from outward harms are sent;
Ills from within thy reason must prevent. [ John Dryden ]
Equal nature fashion'd us
All in one mould.
All's but the outward gloss
And politic form that does distinguish us. [ Massinger ]
Sin is a state of mind, not an outward act. [ Sewell ]
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things. [ Robert Browning ]
All is not golde that outward sheweth bright. [ Lydgate ]
The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]
These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]
Politeness is the outward garment of good-will. [ Guesses at Truth ]
One outward civility is current pay for another. [ Proverb ]
No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene. [ Hosea Ballou ]
All the praise of inward virtue consists in outward action. [ Proverb ]
Oh, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! [ William Shakespeare ]
Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within. [ Dryden ]
Alas! the breast that inly bleeds has nought to fear from outward blow. [ Byron ]
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. [ Milton ]
It is the unseen and spiritual in man that determines the outward and actual. [ Carlyle ]
Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. [ Hazlitt ]
There is no vice so simple, but assumes some mark of virtue on its outward parts. [ William Shakespeare ]
What's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace? [ Young ]
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. [ Chapin ]
You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Where there is slavery in the heart, it will soon show itself in the outward conduct. [ Seume ]
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused. [ Gibbon ]
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. [ Henry van Dyke ]
Right ethics are central, and go from the soul outward. Gift is contrary to the law of the universe. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve. [ Carlyle ]
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing. [ E. H. Chapin ]
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. [ Bunyan ]
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. [ I. Watts ]
Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes - I will be brief: Your noble son is mad! [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. [ John Sterling ]
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. [ Colton ]
Being happy - being appreciative, being grateful - is not altogether a matter of temperament. Nor is it dependent upon outward circumstances. Not at all. [ Ossian Lang ]
Under the assumption of profound esteem, the flatterer wears an outward expression of fidelity, as foreign to his heart as the smile upon the face of the dead. [ E. L. Magoon ]
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. [ Matthew Arnold ]
Poetry incorporates those spirits which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; and sheds the perfume of those flowers which spring up but never bear any seed. [ Jean Paul ]
Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. [ Carlyle ]
Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. [ Bacon ]
That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. [ Addison ]
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation - the realization of an idea by an act of the will. [ John Sterling ]
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity. [ Matthew Arnold ]
As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. [ Massinger ]
When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]