That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure—if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.
"Love is blind" is not a helpful mantra when it conceals warning signs.
Adversity reveals genius, fortune conceals it.
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
A gentle moderation in China's headline retail spending growth conceals multiple upheavals beneath the surface.
Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin never conceals his ambition to build a world leading sports company.
Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.
( ) Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
The heart conceals within itself the vices as well as the virtues, and they grow in the shallowest ground.
