"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."

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"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"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

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."

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"His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught."

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"A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round."

Beauty

"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."

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"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new."

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"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

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

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

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

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

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"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."

"Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode."

"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."

"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

"All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings."

"His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught."

"A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round."

"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."

"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new."

"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."