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Lying Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very…
- The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
- The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein…
- Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence,…
- The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that…
- Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
- When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
- The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
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- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius