"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

Lie, Contempt, Envy, May

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"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Lie,

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Lie, Man, Violence

"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Lie,

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Lie, Sickness, Words

"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Lie, Old

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Lie, Lies, Silence

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Lie, Country, State

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Lie, Lies

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

Fear

"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

Nature

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

Love

"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."

Faith

"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."

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"Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."

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"Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion."

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

"A lie never lives to be old."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Explore more quotes by Abraham Cowley

"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."

"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

"Life is an incurable disease."

"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."

"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."

"Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."

"Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion."