Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show. Ambrose
By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. John Gay
For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason. Marcus Aurelius
'Tis strange with how much power and pride The softness is of love allied; How much of power to force the breast To be in outward show at rest,- How much of pride that never eye May look upon its agony! Ah! little will the lip reveal Of all the burning heart can feel. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. Phaedrus
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show. Ambrose