"what you would seem to be" — or if you'd like it put more simply — "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
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Appear as you may wish to be
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What seems is not what is. People are not what they appear to be.
practice saying to every harsh appearance,1 You are an appearance, and in no manner what you appear to be.
You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
To be rather than to seem.
To be rather than to seem.
We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.
"How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you."
Work, therefore to be able to say to every harsh appearance, “You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.” And then examine it by those rules which you have, and first, and chiefly, by this: whether it concerns the things which are in our own control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.
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View Plansyou are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be
Not what you seem, but always what you see.
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