| Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind. -- Mary Baker Eddy |
| Author:
Eddy, Mary BakerEra:
1821 |
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| The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. -- Oswald Spengler |
| Author:
Spengler, OswaldEra:
1880 |
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| False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -- Socrates |
| Author:
SocratesEra:
-469 |
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| As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. -- Lao-Tzu |
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Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. -- Terence |
| Author:
TerenceEra:
-195 |
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| Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author:
Bailey, GamalielEra:
1816 |
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| Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author:
Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. -- Abraham Lincoln |
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Lincoln, AbrahamEra:
1809 |
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| To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. -- James Russell Lowell |
| Author:
Lowell, James RussellEra:
1819 |
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| A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
| Author:
Rockefeller Jr, J. D.Era:
1874 |
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| To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. -- Eric Hoffer |
| Author:
Hoffer, EricEra:
1902 |
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| We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. -- Justus von liebig |
| Author:
von Liebig, JustusEra:
1803 |
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| I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad |
| Author:
Conrad, JosephEra:
1857 |
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| Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. -- Colley Cibber |
| Author:
Cibber, ColleyEra:
1671 |
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| Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. -- Stuart Chase |
| Author:
Chase, StuartEra:
1888 |
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| In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author:
Heine, HeinrichEra:
1797 |
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| A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "That fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane |
| Author:
Crane, StephenEra:
1871 |
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| It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. -- Jean B. Moliere |
| Author:
Moliere, Jean B.Era:
1622 |
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| A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland |
| Author:
Cleveland, GroverEra:
1837 |
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| A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. -- Sigmund Freud |
| Author:
Freud, SigmundEra:
1856 |
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| Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. -- Homer |
| Author:
HomerEra:
-700 |
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| Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author:
Bailey, GamalielEra:
1816 |
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| War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. -- Le Gallienne |
| Author:
Le GallienneEra:
1866 |
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| Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. -- Antoine Rivarol |
| Author:
Rivarol, AntoineEra:
1753 |
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| If the thoughts are absolutely tranquil the heavenly heart can be seen. The heavenly heart lies between sun and moon (i.e. between the two eyes). It is the home of the inner light. To make light circulate is the deepest and most wonderful secret. The light is easy to move, but difficult to fix. If it is made to circulate long enought, then it crystallizes itself; that is the natural spirit body... -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. -- Plutarch |
| Author:
PlutarchEra:
46 |
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| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author:
Butler, SamuelEra:
1835 |
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| Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. -- Leon Trotsky |
| Author:
Trotsky, LeonEra:
1879 |
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| Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author:
Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. -- Winston Churchill |
| Author:
Churchill, WinstonEra:
1874 |
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| The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. -- Jean B. Moliere |
| Author:
Moliere, Jean B.Era:
1622 |
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| I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. -- Benito Mussolini |
| Author:
Mussolini, BenitoEra:
1883 |
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| Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author:
Aurelius, MarcusEra:
121 |
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| Evil and good are God's right hand and left. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author:
Bailey, GamalielEra:
1816 |
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| A lie never lives to be old. -- Sophocles |
| Author:
SophoclesEra:
-496 |
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| If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him. -- Denis Diderot |
| Author:
Diderot, DenisEra:
1713 |
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| Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author:
Bierce, AmbroseEra:
1842 |
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| Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. -- John Dryden |
| Author:
Dryden, JohnEra:
1631 |
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| And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! -- Agnes Repplier |
| Author:
Repplier, AgnesEra:
1855 |
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| Sincerity is no test of truth - no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life? -- Tryon Edwards |
| Author:
Edwards, TryonEra:
1809 |
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| The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. -- Tupper |
| Author:
TupperEra:
1810 |
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| 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 lies the secret of immortality. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author:
Divine Pymander, TheEra:
-2500 |
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| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. -- Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. |
| Author:
Holmes Jr., Oliver WendellEra:
1841 |
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| The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author:
Butler, SamuelEra:
1835 |
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| A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. -- Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Author:
Stevenson, Robert LouisEra:
1850 |
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| The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so. -- David Hume |
| Author:
Hume, DavidEra:
1711 |
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| I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author:
Butler, SamuelEra:
1835 |
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| A happy family is but an earlier heaven. -- John Bowring |
| Author:
Bowring, JohnEra:
1792 |
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| I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. -- John Ruskin |
| Author:
Ruskin, JohnEra:
1819 |
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| It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families. -- Pythagoras |
| Author:
PythagorasEra:
-582 |
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| Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving. -- Thomas Moore |
| Author:
Moore, ThomasEra:
1779 |
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| It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author:
Bailey, GamalielEra:
1816 |
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