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“Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.”

Has Beens Book Spirit Lying Mouths Bible

Book:The Thomas Paine Reader

Source: The Thomas Paine Reader

“Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.”

Earth Lying Laughing Sun Bed Mouths Rose Bleeding Pleading Love Lies

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do as much as in you lies to put the Lord Jesus Christ from you, and if you go on in this course you begin, you will bring a curse upon you and your posterity, and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

Ifs Soul Body Lying Courses Jesus Christ Lord Goes On Mouths Jesus Christ Curse Posterity Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Anne Hutchinson

“What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.”

Lying Boys Bed Mouths South Golden Generous Troops Bloody Midway

Book:The Poems of Herman Melville

Source: The Poems of Herman Melville

“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”

Knows Men Lying Speak Differences Wise Subjects Mouths Substance Folly Speak The Truth

Book:Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

“You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips, though you will not taste it. Your dead stomachs will hold it within you, while your dead feet take the measure of a dance. Your dead mouths will speak words that will have no meaning to you, and you will embrace one another without pleasure. You will sing for me if I wish it. You will lie down again when I will it.... Let the revelry begin.”

Ifs Lying Speak Wish Pleasure Feet Taste Mouths Wine Embrace Lips Tonight Within You Food And Wine Revelry

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.”

Want Shows Moving Lying Secret Mouths Filled Lips Holes Signals

Book:The Ice is Singing

Source: The Ice is Singing

“The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have to go out, someone will try to take you out, and you will not understand them or what they are saying, unless you understand nothing, absolutely nothing, then you will manage.”

World Trying May Whole Lying Existence Civilization Mouths Hot Whole World Noise Manage Tigers Absolutely Nothing

Author:Djuna Barnes

“The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.”

Littles Bigs Lying Danger Mouths Ears Pitcher

Author:Ethel Mumford