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"But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth."
"When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it."
"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."
"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
"We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others."
"It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see."
"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
"The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs."
"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"
"Particular lies may speak a general truth."
"The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie."
"Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society."
"The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy."
"Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty."
"Your success and happiness lie in you."
"I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!"
"Half the world knows not how the other half lies."
"Stop lying. There isn't enough time left."
"The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security."
"People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit."
