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truth light lines
Charles Caleb Colton Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
truth roots errors
Charles Caleb Colton It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
truth honesty integrity
Charles Caleb Colton Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
truth common theory
Charles Caleb Colton Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
truth thinking hungry
Alanis Morissette I think everyone's hungry for the truth
truth lying heart
Alan Watts Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.
truth unity duality
Alan Watts Duality is always secretly unity.
truth unfolding absolutes
Alan Arkin Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
passion agriculture literature
Charles Dickens Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
passion pride ill-will
Charles Dickens There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
passion hunting breasts
Charles Dickens There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
passion exercise order
Charles Caleb Colton Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
passion greed may
Charles Caleb Colton The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
passion sloth causes
Charles Caleb Colton There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.
passion swings giving
Charles Caleb Colton By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
passion men wind
Charles Caleb Colton The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
passion suffering blinded
Charles Caleb Colton So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
ideas house stories
Charles Dickens She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
ideas rocks tree
Charles Soule Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.
ideas yellow people
Charles Stross The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.
ideas people want
Charles Stanley People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
ideas good-work ifs
Charles Spurgeon Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
ideas world incredibles
Alan Watts The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
ideas gentleman plausible
Alan Watts The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.
ideas stink masters
Alan Watts To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
ideas matter certain
Alan Watts In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.