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lying deceit literature
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. Charles Dickens
lying nurse cradle
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. Charles Caleb Colton
lying pride ignorant
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. Charles Caleb Colton
lying ignorance space
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? Charles Caleb Colton
lying men shining
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others. Charles Caleb Colton
lying heart thinking
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. Charles Dickens
lying ambition mean
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. Charles Dickens
lying sadness boys
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. Charles Dickens
lying views dying
Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog! Charles Dickens
sunny hours enjoy
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly! Charlotte Bronte
sunny-weather sunny-afternoon yield
A shady business never yields a sunny life. B. C. Forbes
sunny winning
We wouldn't be winning necessarily if it were all sunny days. Mike Hunter
sunny-day danger clear
But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide? Stephenie Meyer
sunny-afternoon shy sunny-day
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. W. H. Auden
spots occasional concerts
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard. Archibald MacLeish
spots vocalist
I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist. Ben Gibbard
spots whole-life whole
There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot. Brad Thor
spots
I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better. Zeke Jones
spots ifs
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. Emile M. Cioran
spots sweet
Different VCs have different sweet spots for where they want to invest. Bruce Montgomery
spots starter
Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work, Denny Green
spots surf
The surf spots are still not deemed safe. Kurt Tsue
spots
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees. James Lind