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“Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.”

Men Lasts Lying Belief Common Atheism Planets Lovers Pure Suicide Entertainment Every Man Skepticism Propositions Depravity Warp

Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.”

Ifs Has Beens Running Lying Water Clear Pure Welcome Streams Pouring Refills

Book:The Dog Stars

Source: The Dog Stars

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.”

Mind Eye Action Lying Artist White Pure Mere Worn Great Art Great Artist Uneasy Trimming White Lie Prevarication

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.”

Lying Father Forget Lord Cold Pure Mountain Stones Saint Bones Our Father Alpine

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.”

Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

“America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.”

America Lying Gone Air Sadness Huge Pure Mountain Burden Ripe Lethargy Mountain Air

Author:Ralph Steadman

“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!”

World Heart Care Lying Waiting Sin Sorrow Pure Labor Ill Woe Petty Weeping Pillow Slumber Resolute Sirens Stout Vexation Weeping Willows

Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)