| Jonathan Ashe - 1843 - 368 pages
...precepts ; lead uncorrupt lives, do the thing which is right, and speak the truth from your heart ! for truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits easy upon your lips, but a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one falsehood... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...A liar/ hath need of a good me'mory, lest he contradict at one-time/ what he said at ano'ther ; but tru'th/ is always consis'tent with it'self, and needs...it is always near at hand, and sits upon our li'ps ; whereas a lie'/ is trou'blesome, and needs a great many mo're/ to make it goo'd. A'dd to all this',... | |
| Camilla Crosland - 1849 - 208 pages
...STRATAGEMS It ft vide p. 133. TINY'S DISCOVERY. Itnq for BY MKS. NEWTON CROSLAND, (LATE CAMILLA TOULMIJJ.) " Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention on the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good." — TILLOTSON.... | |
| Charles Duke Yonge - 1850 - 240 pages
...hoped, with a lively sense of gratitude and obedience. EXERCISE 305. (Addison. Spectator, p. 352.) Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention on the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. It is like building... | |
| John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 248 pages
...own. When we do any thing which our conscience disapproves, we become the destroyers of our own peace. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...are aware; whereas, a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention on the rack, and one untruth needs a great many more to make it good. We all complain... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 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 nothing to help it out ; it ia always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are iware ; whereas... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...thing. A liar hath need of a good memory, lest he contradict at one time what he said at another. But truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...before 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... | |
| Keepsake - 1859 - 178 pages
...always honourable. It has this advantage too, it needs nothing to help it out. It is always at hand, sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. Whereas a lie is always troublesome ; it sets a man's invention on the rack ; and one requires many more to make it... | |
| Robert Demaus - Education - 1860 - 296 pages
...other. " A liar has need of a good memory, lest he contradict at one time what he said at another. But truth is always consistent with itself, and needs...before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good." It is therefore always the wisest plan, when we... | |
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