"In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches."

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Source : Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.613, Northwestern University Press

Herman Melville

#Art Quotes #Lying Quotes #White Quotes

“The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.”
“If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.”
“The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.”

Source : Wally Lamb (2009). “The Hour I First Believed: A Novel”, p.50, Harper Collins
“I know I look super young.”
“When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.”
“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”

Source : Montreal Medical Journal Sept. 1902, p. 696
“I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.”

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