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,... The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance - Side 911867Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| rev Andrew Cameron - 1867 - 784 sider
...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... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 sider
...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... | |
| Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 sider
...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....: 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... | |
| Ebenezer Davies - 1868 - 234 sider
...be true to God ; Thy tongue to it ; thy actions to them both. Cowards tell lies, and those who fear the rod, The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true ! Nothing can need a lie ; The fault, that needs it most, grows two thereby." Having made this digression, we resume the narrative.... | |
| Isaac Plant Fleming - 1869 - 346 sider
...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... | |
| Aesop - 1869 - 308 sider
...believed. His false tongue entails on him the loss of the respect and confidence of his neighbours. Dare 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,... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 sider
...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.... | |
| 1870 - 716 sider
...Dear young friends, I entreat you not to deceive people, and never to tell any lie. " DiKE TO BE TBUB. Nothing can need a lie: A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby." You may very easily get into this bad habit, and then find that you cannot master it. Because it is... | |
| E S H. Bagnold - 1870 - 182 sider
...Joshua grieves me, a liar is such a despicable character ; I wish he would study Herbert, who says — ' Nothing can need a lie : A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.' As I lie awake at night disturbed by our neighbour's harp, I think of the time when ' the lyre was... | |
| George Herbert - 1871 - 280 sider
...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....: 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... | |
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