 | George Herbert - 1865
...both : Cowards tell lies, and those tha/t fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. Ely idleness, which yet thou canst not fly By dressing, mistressing, and complement. If those take... | |
 | Henry SMITH (of King's College, London.) - 1866 - 227 pàgines
...to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both ; Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. — G. Herbert. I was discussing the subject (of lying) with a very respectable Brahmin, who defended... | |
 | 1866 - 264 pàgines
...believed. His false tongue entails on him the loss of the respect and confidence of his neighbours. Dave to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. FABLE LX. THE FOX AND THE GOAT. A Fox, having tumbled into a well, had been contriving for a long while,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 pàgines
...perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains. R. More, Belska:zar, I. LYING— we Lies. Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. G. Herbert, The Church Pore*. And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two.... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 383 pàgines
...falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. SHENSTONE. DAEE to be true. Nothing can need a lie : A fault, which needs it most grows two thereby. GEORGE HERBERT. AND the parson made it his text that week, and he said likewise, That a lie which is half... | |
 | rev Andrew Cameron - 1867
...in all circumstances and at all hazards adheres scrupulously and sternly to the truth of things. 1 ' Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : A fault which needs It most, grows two thereby." What a base, miserable being is a liar! what anxieties and subterfuges to escape detection ! what new... | |
 | George Herbert - 1867
...upon Cowards tell lies,34 and those that fear the rod; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth.35 Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : A fault, which needs it most grows two thereby. Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly™ By dressing, mistressing,37 and complement. If those... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868
...both : Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. Do all things like a man, not sneakingly : Think the king sees thee still; for his King does. Simpering... | |
 | Isaac Plant Fleming - 1869 - 306 pàgines
...unwise. In the year 1066 William the Conqueror invaded England. 5. Parse fully the following passage : Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie. A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. JUNIOR CANDIDATES. 2. Trench on the Study of Words. 1. In what sense is language man's invention, and... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 458 pàgines
...Elixir. A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. The Church Parch. Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.* 1ud. The worst speak something good ; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.... | |
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Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both. Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie. A fault, which needs it most,... 
