#unseen

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. ↗

— Thucydides

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The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ↗

— Anaxagoras

#glimpse #unseen

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise. ↗

— Martha Beck

#around #bedroom #believe #caring #choosing

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. ↗

— William Collins

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us. ↗

— Richard Cowper

#hands #meet #our #people #shaping

Love comes unseen; we only see it go. ↗

— Austin Dobson

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