Round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
It is more from carelessness about the truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
No falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper but returns of force to its own likeness.
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil, the product of all climes.
To lapse in fullness is sorer than to lie for need: and falsehood is worse in king than beggar.
Farrar does not say that the Bible is mixed up with much of the greatest in human history; no, it must be mixed up with all the greatest--which is a transparent falsehood and a no less transparent absurdity.
Or, your owne end to Justifie, For having purpos'd change, and falsehood; you Can have no way but falsehood to be true?
For a long time his falsehood had never disturbed him, but it now brought him acute suffering.
And how heavily must that falsehood have weighed upon his conscience for him to confess himself in that fashion, amidst an utter collapse of his whole being!
Lourdes must be tolerated, in the same way that you tolerate a falsehood which makes life possible.
It's by literature, not by the sword, that mankind will overcome falsehood and injustice and attain to the final peace of fraternity among the nations--Oh!
And so may the temple fall with its deity of falsehood and servitude!
And at the same time some most extraordinary stories were current; there was no end of tittle-tattle in which fact andfalsehood were so inextricably mingled that everybody was at sea as to the real truth.
And he had suddenly remembered that he himself was now saved, freed from falsehood and fright, restored to good and healthy nature.
And her rage arose from the ease with which her mother had got rid of her, thanks to that falsehood of having something to try on.
Only would he not be showing true pity and mercy in silencing the scruples of his reason, the noble prejudices of his faith, in presence of the necessity of granting that bread of falsehood which poor humanity requires in order to be happy?
In their cases reality was too abominable, and an immense need of illusion and falsehood sprang up within them.
And, at first, he obstinately clung to the falsehood born of his fraternal charity.
He had never before felt so disgusted with the falsehood of his life, that cassock which he had persisted in wearing, though he was a priest in name only.
But this was the falsehood that had injured him most among the common people.
This lofty protest against a public falsehood will remain as an instance of moral and personal female courage, till history shall be no more.
Do we desire to see the principles of fraud and falsehood made a regular material in the market of public transactions, and lucre exalted into the sole object of existence?
The fallacy and falsehood of this theory he analyzes and exposes, and proceeds to state and reason upon various measures of Congress connected with these topics, at great length, and with laborious elucidation.
If not, the boys felt doubly insecure--insecure about the stability of their falsehood and the secrecy of their proceedings.
They that like me thyfalsehood prove, Will scorn thy love.
If any some notorious falsehood say, Thou the report with equal judgement weigh.
Each flatt'ring kiss, each tempting smile, Thou dost in vain bestow, 10 Some other lovers might beguile, Who not thy falsehood know.
I were to say that I have come to realize the falsehood of all that?
But so deliberate a falsehood transcends all bounds.
But I warn you," the corsair continued, "that to you it will seem less easy to believe by much than any falsehood I could invent.
I tracked the evil of all this to its source in Killigrew, and rode straight to Arwenack to dam that source of falsehood for all time.
It is because Satan, the father of lies, has introduced falsehood into the world that oaths have come into use.
That is, so long as folly and falsehood remain, they must be denounced, and made either to recant or to retire; for only when they have disappeared will wisdom show itself easy to be entreated.
In the northern Districts the widow may wed the younger brother of her deceased husband, but in the Maratha country she may not be married to any of his relatives.
And often touching will Where gold; and no man that hath a name By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.
After what we have said of the methods of the German Press, and the mentality of the German rulers, no one will hesitate, we fancy, as to the place which falsehood must be accorded in this propaganda.
There are other examples of continuity of falsehood than those relating to violations of the Hague Convention and the Treaty of London (1839).
When the falsehood of the money was discovered, they laid hands upon the Dutch factors, and are said to have put some of them to death.
You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement, and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters the better for you.
Blundering and falsehood become intolerable to the blunderers; they must return to thought, and that is proper in a single direction, is approached by ten thousand avenues toward the One.
The falsehoodof the remark enhanced its significance.
The most charitable explanation of that falsehood is to suppose that across their secluded gardens and into their luxurious rooms, or even to their back-doors, an average English cottager is too proud to go.
That treasure, to preserve my faith to Rome, Those hands committed to th' untimely tomb; And every hope and joy of life resign'd To keep the stain of falsehood from my mind.
Another troop the vestal virgin led, Who bore along from Tyber's oozy bed His liquid treasure in a sieve, to show The falsehood of her base calumnious foe By wondrous proof.
Where Falsehood fills the throne, while Truth retires, And vainly mourns her half-extinguish'd fires.
With all my power, lest falsehood should invade, I guarded thee and still thy honour sought, Ungrateful tongue!
But it was not the nod of agreement with the falsehood so much as at recognition of the lie.
They were that answer, and the result--who can say what the consequences would be when falsehood and superstition had a savage people at command?
Though many of the statements therein were perverse and wilful distortions of facts, there was a large element of truth, and it would not have been easy to expose the falsehood without admitting much that could not be denied.
Yet he had here gone out of his way to prosecute to his ruin a poor wretch who, certainly not without great provocation, had merely accused him of falsehoodand native malignancy.
Robert Baldwin was a man who was not only incapable of falsehood or meanness to gain his ends, but who was to the last degree intolerant of such practices on the part of his warmest supporters.
I would be verily a fool to try to impose upon you with a falsehood which you would soon detect; only because I offered you the truth, did I call you.
Bourbon was now engaged in revolt against his king and his country, as well as in falsehood and treason--preliminary conditions of such a course.
