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For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.
We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.
So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?
With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.
O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.
Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.
After the leg break it was a very tough time. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't sometimes thought about stopping playing football.
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.
Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.
To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.
But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.
The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!
The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.
I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
The thing is girls will always say you're lying when you say you had sex with them when you're lying about having sex with them.
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.
It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.