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semblance

«Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.»
Author: William Godwin | Keywords: semblance
«The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.»
«Two thirds of the work is the semblance.»
Author: Irish Proverb | Keywords: semblance, two-thirds
«How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.»
«Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that»
«But misery still delights to trace / Its semblance in another's case.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: semblance