| Joseph Gostwick - English language - 1878 - 528 pages
...construction of the two chief members into which it divides itself, as in the appended example : — ' Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...aware ; || whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to help it out." — TIIXOTSON.... | |
| Ebenezer Coloham Brewer - English language - 1878 - 476 pages
...truth." A lie has no legs, but scandalous wings. He who tells a lie needs twenty others to make it good. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...nothing to help it out : It is always near at hand, sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : Whereas, a lie is troublesome, and... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...trust and confidence in him, which is an unspeakable advantage in the business and affairs of life. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...trust and confidence in him, which is an unspeakable advantage in the business and affairs of life. they rise there ; and hence, when we are examining an authors a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like... | |
| Christianity - 1879 - 334 pages
...good kind people who bear with their little infirmities, and tell them the wonders of redeeming love 1 TRUTH is always consistent with itself, and needs...nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; a lie is troublesome, and sets a... | |
| Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Bookbinding - 1880 - 686 pages
...there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs many more to make it good. It is dangerous to... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...the business and affairs of life. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to hetp it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to clrop out before we are aware ; whenus a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack,... | |
| Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...from the smoke of the pit, and it is better that our hearts should be swept clean of them. — RUSKIN. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like... | |
| Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...tho hatred of those whom we have deceived, and an eternal separation from God in tho world to come. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, situ upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before wo arc aware; whereas a lio is troublesome, sets... | |
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...thing. A liar hath need of good memory lest he contradict at one time what he said at another. But truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...we are aware ; whereas, a lie is troublesome, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. Add to all this that sincerity is the most compendious... | |
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