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lying deceit literature
Charles Dickens Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
lying nurse cradle
Charles Caleb Colton Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
lying pride ignorant
Charles Caleb Colton Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
lying ignorance space
Charles Caleb Colton Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?
lying men shining
Charles Caleb Colton Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
lying heart thinking
Charles Dickens The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
lying ambition mean
Charles Dickens I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
lying sadness boys
Charles Dickens The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
reality drawing views
Charles Caleb Colton Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.
reality kind all-kinds
Alan Watts Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.
reality past concrete
Alan Watts The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
reality negative
Alan Watts Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?
reality men ink
Alan Watts But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
reality ultimate-reality ultimate
Alan Watts Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...
reality confusion people
Alan Watts I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag , whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people , and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.
reality sea views
Alan Watts Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
reality definitions purpose
Alan Watts The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.
air long joy
Charles Dickens He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.
air house honor
Charles Caleb Colton Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
air might physicians
Charles Caleb Colton Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
air should vendetta
Alan Moore Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
air sky needs
Alan Jay Lerner Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
air actors eras
Al Pacino Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
airport commercial deadline open remain service view
Kathleen Bergen We want to see the airport remain open to commercial service. We view this deadline (Tuesday) ... as a deadline after which we will re-evaluate where the airport stands.
airplane thinking artist
Chris Carter Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.
airports percent
Chris Brown Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.