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“Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.”

May Doe Lying Night Rich Stones Betray Unseen Jewels Gems

Book:The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

Source: The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

“Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.”

Art Lying Effects Perfection Unseen Ostentatious

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.”

Men Mind Long Eye Lying Force Can Do Land One Day Regions Unseen Mushrooms Pavement Asphalt

Author:William Least Heat-Moon

“There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.”

“The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.”

Lying Interest Essence Edges Spots Symbols Horizon Unseen

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.”

Lying Order Term Relation Supreme Unseen Good Lies

Author:William James