"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."

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Source : Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487

Daniel Webster

#Truth Quotes #Liars Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.”
“The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.”

Source : "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 6, The Precarious Eden, p. 151), 1989.
“From the moment that you don't fear to share your heart, you are a free person.”
“It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.”
“Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.”
“My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.”
“Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.”
“The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite mercy that heaved and panted and longed for an outlet; it was God showing how he could love a poor, guilty sinner.”

Source : Octavius Winslow (1848). “Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul”, p.231

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