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“There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.”

Ifs Care Earth Lying Steps Knowledge Feet Streets Walking Busy Pace Jewels Crowded Careless Brightness Gems Wondrous Treading Crowded Streets

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.”

Men Humans Children Age Lying Speak Chance Human Beings Mere Extraordinary Old Man

Book:La vieillesse

Source: La vieillesse

“Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.”

Years Lying Heaven Sleep Battle Eating Concern Negative Aspect Spread Dust Denial Gray Decay Dirt Cleaning Identical Washing Wardrobe Sweeping Housework Housekeepers

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.”

Seems Would Be Lying Clear Shadow Uncertainty

Author:Faith Baldwin

“Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.”

Ifs Lying Interest Study Events Appearance Surface Seeds Historian Biographies Delightful Utility True Life Too Deep Great Events

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.”

Lying Passion Memories Feet Talent Genius Gratitude Mere Dry Up And Down Bosoms Ungrateful Swept Away Dry Leaves

Book:Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues

Source: Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues

“The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.”

Heart Lying Effects Produce Committed Commit Ingratitude

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.”

Knows Men Mind Wisdom Christian Lying Christianity Teach Wise Perfection Tranquillity

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.”

Lying Existence Loneliness Liars

Book:Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

“Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.”

Lying Ought Liars

Book:Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

“The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.”

Lying Suffering Silence Unconscious Liars Amnesia

Book:Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

“the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.”

Body Lying Simple Dog Turtles

Book:Circles on the Water

Source: Circles on the Water

“There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.”

People Lying Sake People Who Lie

Book:Pensées and Other Writings

Source: Pensées and Other Writings

“All our dignity lies in our thoughts.”

Lying Dignity Our Thoughts

Author:Blaise Pascal

“So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.”

Truth Lying Hate Friendship Truth Is

Book:Bingo

Source: Bingo

“The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.”

Country Lying Sacrifice Greatness Expression Blessing Essence Enjoyed Willingness True Greatness Willingness To Sacrifice

Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.”

People Believe Lying Advertising Propaganda Persuasion Pitching

Book:Move on: adventures in the real world

Source: Move on: adventures in the real world

“Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.”

Lying Night Dark Rooms Months Bed Terror Emptiness Corpses Slippery

Book:Wilderness Tips

Source: Wilderness Tips

“To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.”

Way Long Death Lying Dying Fear Of Death Way To Live Afraid Of Death

Author:Francis Quarles

“The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.”

Firsts Heart Self States Lying Courses Secret Possibility Kissing Lips Myth Electric Gifted Signals Psychedelic Crude Rapture First Kiss Sweetheart Staples Nonsensical Change Of Heart

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.”

Lying Disease Theater

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“Poets tell many lies.”

Author:Solon

“The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.”

Source: The Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays

“So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.”

Used Lying Night Silence Listening Noise Awake Awake At Night

Author:Muriel Spark

“As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.”

Home Would Be Lying Speak Felt Heard Conversation Flow Dull Telling The Truth Considering Boast Exaggerating

Author:Bernard Berenson

“Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.”

Men World Looks Self Lying Social Cities Flower Built Mark Wings Brave Cells Bees Hiv Hives Lying Men Cramps

Author:Philip James Bailey

“Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.”

Men Lying Humanity Known Imagine Capacity

Book:The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

“Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.”

Writing Trying Doe Stories Lying Novel Details Untrue True Story Believable Good Lies

Author:Anne Tyler

“I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.”

Thinking Mind Believe Humans Stills I Can Ideas Might Lying Universe Results Accepting Doubt Evolution Blind Accidents Revelations Free Will Human Mind Chemicals Idolatry

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.”

Lying Figures Speech Packs Imagery

Author:Plutarch

“if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.”

Ifs Men Hard Enough Lying Given Quality Youth Weakness Shining Drinking Credit Emptiness Host Frustrated Unfortunate Alcoholism Discreet

Book:Points of View

Source: Points of View

“the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.”

Looks Book Lying Pleasure Possession Urges Print Stamps Collecting Offspring Trinkets Postage Postage Stamps

Author:Agnes Repplier

“It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.”

Ifs World Should Humans Looks Age Lying Effort Approach Tasks Work Out Checks Granted Reasoning Anticipation Millennium

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.”

People World Way Lying Hate Too Much Dangerous Hatred Gunpowder

Book:The Thinking Reed

Source: The Thinking Reed

“To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.”

Running Lying Fall Waiting Hurt Comfort Disease Illness Sympathy Those Who Lie

Book:The Judge

Source: The Judge

“Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.”

Knows War Real Lying Cities International Terror Terrorism Ideology

Book:The meaning of treason

Source: The meaning of treason

“Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.”

Men Lying Christianity Teach Atheism Wide Pretending Passages

Author:Benjamin Stillingfleet

“Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.”

Mean Long Lying Findings Rewards Satisfaction Long Ago Authorship

Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow

Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow

“Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.”

Lying Challenges Courage Knowing Spring Twenties Fifty Not Knowing Fearlessness

Author:Kathleen Turner

“The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.”

People Firsts Would Be Lying Break Hero Paid Soldier Reports Abandoned Submit Royal Castles Shameful Atrocities Trenches

Author:Karl Kraus

“Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.”

Lying Subjects Food Profound

Book:The Sea, The Sea

Source: The Sea, The Sea

“Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.”

Men Helping Feelings Spiritual Lying Organized Conventions Deviation Camouflage True Feelings

Author:Maria Montessori

“The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.”

Men World Years Children Earth Lying Energy Wealth Progress He Man Depth Surface Treasure Civilized Immense Psychics Constructive Noticing Infancy Unnoticed

Author:Maria Montessori

“A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.”

Believe I Can Lying Can Do White Marriage Successful Safety Kitchen Safety Net Bedrock Successful Marriage Renovation White Lie

Book:Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

“Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.”

Ifs Art Lying Learning Riches Thee

Author:John Lyly

“The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.”

Lying Heaven Water Land

Book:An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain

Source: An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain

“True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.”

Mind Lying Force Results Courage Duty Honor Brave Reasoning Resolution Mechanism Veins Infamy True Courage

Author:Jeremy Collier

“Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.”

People Stories Lying Strong Interest Strange Temptation Vanity Merit Acquaintance Strange Stories

Book:Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

“It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.”

Wells May Doe Lying Water Steps Logic Metaphor

Author:Isaac Watts

“One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.”

Lying Source Conviction Delusion Persistent Dissatisfaction

Book:Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

Source: Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity