The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, bu…

Mark Twain
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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect. ✨ Mark Twain (2016). Joan of Arc, p.117, Ignatius Press
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