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“There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.”

People Today Lying Laughing Tomorrow Abuse Rounds Abusive

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.”

Play Earth Lying Sea Sky Creatures Ocean Mark Blue Bounds Rounds Clouds Wide Regions Blue Ocean

Author:Bryan Procter

“A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.”

World Lying Truth Is Rounds Boots Catchy

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.”

Soul Eye Lying Night Grief Half Bird Sight Rounds My Soul Shade Mirth

Book:The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals

Source: The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals

“Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.”

Knows Done Lying Social Perfect Mass Organization Rounds Wheels Hospitals Exes Joints Psychiatric Psychiatric Hospitals

Author:Kenneth Rexroth

“If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.”

Ifs World Want Wells Said Light Lying Truth Is Breaths Train Rounds Boots Pulling Feathers Well Said Old Proverb

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.”

Men Said Lying Saws He Man Rounds Ran Horizon Cried Disturbed Sped

Book:War Is Kind and Other Poems

Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems

“The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.”

Lying Absolutes Rounds Lists Margins

Author:Thomas Keneally

“The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

Men Giving Humans Heart Eye Joy Lying Race Watches Sun Tears Flower Rounds Clouds Blow Setting Settings Thanks Mortality Tenderness Sober Human Heart Palms Too Deep

Author:William Wordsworth

“Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.”

Ifs Men Philosophy Might Lying Wise Atheism Terrible Mad Rounds Positive Atheism Divinity

Book:The National Review

Source: The National Review

“The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.”

Eye Form Lying Fairs Rounds Spread Herds Brows Clusters Panthers

Author:Ovid

“Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.”

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition

“Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.”

Source: Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew

“That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.”

Source: Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner

“When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.”

Done Lying Mother Night Father Died Crisis Rounds Kitchen Funeral My Sister Organised Undertaker Mother Died

Author:Stuart Rose