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“The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal”

Men Needs Lying Principles Virtue Grace Eternal Immortal Fourth Refuge Muse Solace Recreation Time Of Need

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.”

World Way Love Long Soul Whole Beautiful Lying Night Goal Hours Perfect This World Flower Eternal Lonely Green Meetings Golden Weary Lone Long Nights Green Leaves

Author:Edwin Arnold

“The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.”

Lying Goodness Eternal Difficulty Torment Goodness Of God

Author:Samuel Clarke

“There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation. True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss”

“People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Made Lying Cases Eternal Sorry Cures Height Exception Frightened I'm Sorry Eternal Life Immorality Abjection Propitiation

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.”

Moments Lying Values Situation Moral Principles Eternal Messages Universal Critical Convinced Aids Neighbor Our Society Thyself Moral Principles Love Thy Neighbor

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.”

Years Two Facts Seems Might Lying Morning Months Eternal Seasons Lifetime Naked Sand Lazy Sunshine Los Angeles Slips Pacific Nuance

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”

Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

“A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.”

Giving Beautiful Lying Force Heaven Stars Space Pleasure Eternal Infinity Repose Obstruction Eternal Peace

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view, there is no such thing as beginning and end - these are all related to time. Timeless being is entirely in the now. Being and not-being alternate and their reality is momentary. The immutable Reality lies beyond space and time.”

Ifs World Doe Ends Reality Lying Time Space Views Eternal Related Timeless Time And Space Momentary Beginnings And Ends

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.”

Has Beens Character Feelings Law Joy Lying Speak Natural Sea Higher Sorrow Eternal Traits Treacherous Higher Power Deceitful

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.”

I Can Lying Fire Fields Cold Bears Eternal Shame Endless Void Frozen Scorpions

Book:The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

“Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two”

Two Eye Lying Thousand Eternal Hundred Infinite Myth

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik