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truth light lines
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. Charles Caleb Colton
truth roots errors
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
truth honesty integrity
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
truth common theory
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
truth thinking hungry
I think everyone's hungry for the truth Alanis Morissette
truth lying heart
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. Alan Watts
truth unity duality
Duality is always secretly unity.
truth unfolding absolutes
Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute. Alan Arkin
truth lying acting
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. Al Pacino
real giving gold
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility
real passion deceit
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
real deceit our-actions
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real evil lasts
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
real honest strategy
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
reality drawing views
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.
real character mean
Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real atmosphere gold
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.
real home thinking
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
gentleman
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. Charles Dickens
gentleman cost pedants
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.
gentleman knaves wealth
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
gentleman deception fiction
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."
gentleman sometimes
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
gentleman kind
He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady. Caitlin Kittredge
gentleman principles looks
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. Caleb Cushing
gentleman may venture
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ... Catherine the Great
gentleman profanity swearing
When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. William Shakespeare