#falsehood

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

#how #know #many #real #real things

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#combinations #falsehood #infinity #mode #only

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#about #children #desire #discrimination #excite

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#falsehood #fury #pain #love

Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#deception #dishonor #falsehood #love #shame

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

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As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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