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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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
deceit incompetence clinton
We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America. Chris Christie
deceit deceived poor-richard
None are deceived but they that confide. Benjamin Franklin
deceit creation lord
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit. Athanasius
deceit deception err thou thy
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
deceit familiar invasion lost power vietnam
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. Noam Chomsky
deceit get-money deceived
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. Aristophanes
deceit causes holy
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. Aeschylus
deceit deception people suspect truth
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
deceit these-days fraud
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times. Edward Coke
talent given ifs
Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it. Denzel Washington
talent performers knows
Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them. Dick Cavett
talent easy difficult
It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50. Edgar Degas
talent cleanliness interest
I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can. Charlie Kaufman
talent
You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too. Billy Wagner
talent being-me sometimes
I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me. Ben Affleck
talent human-nature brevity
Brevity - the sister of talent. Anton Chekhov
talent ton trying
We're getting better and have a ton of talent. We're trying to just get things down.
talent humans
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. Brenda Ueland