"Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!"
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"All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius."
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"I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception."
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"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."
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"In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase."
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"The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies."
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"That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence."
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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."
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"Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!"
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"The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!"
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"He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar."
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"The pure soul is a pure lie."
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"The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed"
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"For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it."
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"So often, over the course of our day-to-days, we forget the details of what shapes us most in life. Sure, we'll pay through the nose to have our weddings videotaped, but can we say the same thing about the first time we discovered masturbation, or the moment we realized that the true nature of the opposite sex is to lie and humiliate (and I'm not just talking about women here)? Usually not."
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"The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons."
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"In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond."
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"In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world."
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"I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity."
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"George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."
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