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“The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.”

Lying Force Enemy Greater Cutting Effects Military Strategic Cutting Off

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.”

Thinking Love Feels Doe Able Lying Trouble Effects All Things Burden Warrants

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.”

Art Lying Effects Perfection Unseen Ostentatious

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.”

Ifs Persons Faces Lying Opinion Effects Dare Instant Falsehood

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“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].

“But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.”

Knows Feels Humans Looks Soul Eye Lying Night Dark Common Effects Holy Constitution Blessed Saint Get Up Emptiness Fatigue Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson