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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career. -- John Lothrop Motley
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. -- Jose Saramago
Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding. -- Ellen Key
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form. -- Martha Beck
Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride. -- John Piper
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth. -- Grace Aguilar
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form. -- Beaumont Newhall
Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. -- Idries Shah
All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything. -- Kelly Corrigan
...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water! -- Rumi
Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations. -- Ernest Holmes

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