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190 quotesA heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Praise
Jean De La Bruyere
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Taste
Jean De La Bruyere
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Generosity
Jean De La Bruyere
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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
Youth
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
Hypocrisy
Lord Byron
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It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Winners and Winning
Arthur Calwell
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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Wisdom
Camerounian Proverb
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Life and Living
Albert Camus
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Lies and Lying
Elias Canetti
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Duty
Thomas Carlyle
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Present
Thomas Carlyle
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Winter
Willa Cather
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
Bragging
Miguel De Cervantes
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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Valor
Miguel De Cervantes
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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Ostentation
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Dress
Lord Chesterfield
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Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
Famine
Charles Churchill
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Honor lies in honest toil.
Honor
Grover Cleveland
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Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
Luck
Richard Cobden
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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
Opportunity
George W. Crane
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
Happiness
George William Curtis
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Authority
Leonardo Da Vinci
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Truth
Robertson Davies
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Statistics
Benjamin Disraeli
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun