I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.