He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.
It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.
Seeming to do is not doing.
He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.
I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.