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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.
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Chris Christie We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.
deceit deceived poor-richard
Benjamin Franklin None are deceived but they that confide.
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Tom Leighton There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
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Llywelyn Jones It's a great place to be gay online because no one knows who you are, where you live. They only know what you tell them. Online, you can lie. It's very easy to make up a whole different person online because you have a fake name and you can be really secretive and deceitful about it.
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Bible Bible Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
deceit speaking truth universal
George Orwell Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
deceit get-money deceived
Aristophanes Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
deceit causes holy
Aeschylus God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
deceit trouble my-truth
Mercedes McCambridge I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits
literature civility
Charles Dickens The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
literature potatoes poultry
Charles Dickens Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
Charles Dickens I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
Charles Caleb Colton If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
literature prudence
Charles Caleb Colton There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
Charles Caleb Colton The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Charles Caleb Colton Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Charles Dickens We are so very 'umble.