Washington Allston Quotes About Lying

• Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

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  Lying   Toads   Hundred  

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

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• I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

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  Lying   Thinking   Traveler  

  Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.15, University Press of Kentucky

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• It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.

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  Kings   Lying   Blow  

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.170

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• The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

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  Lying   Peculiar   Half  

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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