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british-author disgrace general heart human interest particular subject totally trifle
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. Thomas Day
british-author england gentleman large lived name western whose
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
british-author luxuries poor
We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
british-author lest shame triumph
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
british-author foxes interest lives peace sincere
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. George Eliot
british-author consists denying
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
british-author great jokes strain taste
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
british-author known
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
british-author dog fine mine youth
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
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