“Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)
“Almost every organization… exhibits two faces — a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outside.”
Source: 1950s, The Organizational Revolution: A study in the ethics of economic organization, 1953, p. 10 as cited in: Joseph T. Mahoney & Anne S. Huff (1993) Toward a New Social Contract. Theory in Organization Science https://ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/30105/towardnewsocialc93136maho.pdf?sequence=2 Faculty paper, University of Illinois at Urbana
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Theodore Chickering Williams (1855–1915) American hymnwriter
A Thanatopsis, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.”
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“Turn and face the strange changes.”
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Song lyrics, Hunky Dory (1971)
Source: Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange.
“The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen.”
Fredric Brown (1906–1972) American novelist, short story author
Etaoin Shrdlu (p. 33)
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Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"The Mask"
The Still Centre (1939)
“Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
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January 1941. Quoted in "The China Monthly Review" - Page 47 - East Asia - 1917