 | Cassell, ltd - 1876
...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. The way to make thy son rich is to fill His mind with rest, before his trunk with riches : 20 For wealth... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 604 pàgines
...outrage imprime sur son front ? * Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod, says George Herbert : " Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby." Addison surmises the reason why giving the lie is the great violation of the point of honour from man... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1877 - 340 pàgines
...Measure. — He that does one FAULT at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two. — WATTS, Song xv. — Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; A FAULT which needs it most grows two thereby. Faults. — They say, beet men are moulded out of FAULTS. .SHAKESPERE, Meиiurefar Measure. Faultless—... | |
 | Churchman - 1877
...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. SEPTEMBER 27. "The Sun of Righteousness." — MAL. iv. 2. THE Sun is the most excellent and most glorious... | |
 | George Herbert - 1877 - 112 pàgines
...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. Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly By dressing, mistressing, and compliment. If those take... | |
 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1877
...George Herbert, of Cherbury, wrote many a long year ago, shot suddenly across the culprit's brain : " Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs it most grows two thereby." " I -will be true to Ivy," the repentant sinner said to herself; " in return for all she has endured... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 772 pàgines
...truth seeks shelter in the grove. GRANVILLE. And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. GRAY: Bard. Dare to be true ; nothing can need a lie : A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. GEORGE HERBERT. If truth be with thy friend, be with them both : Share in the conquest, and confess a truth.... | |
 | J. F. Clark - 1878 - 326 pàgines
...it patiently. We have sworn to seek the Truth, and the Truth alone. In the words of Butler, we will "'Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie, A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.' " Let us do our duty, and follow the advice of Herbert, who says : — " ' If Truth be with thy friend,... | |
 | Choice poems - 1879
...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. 1 enhance — heighten, or increase. 2 cheap — easy. When thou dost purpose aught within thy power,... | |
 | 1896 - 1178 pàgines
...substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed. /. HAZLITT — The Spirit of the Age. Jeremy Sentham. ughts. Night IX. L. 415. AGE (OLD). Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of the years ! I am s g. HERBERT— The Temple. The Church Porch. Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a... | |
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