 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...Elixir. A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. The Church Parch. Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.* 1ud. The worst speak something good ; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.... | |
 | Isaac Plant Fleming - 1869 - 346 pages
...unwise. In the year 1066 William the Conqueror invaded England. 5. Parse fully the following passage : Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie. A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. JUNIOR CANDIDATES. 2. Trench on the Study of Words. 1. In what sense is language man's invention, and... | |
 | Aesop - 1869 - 308 pages
...believed. His false tongue entails on him the loss of the respect and confidence of his neighbours. Dare to be true : nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. FABLE LX. THE FOX AND THE GOAT. A Fox, having tumbled into a well, had been contriving for a long while,... | |
 | E S H. Bagnold - 1870 - 182 pages
...Joshua grieves me, a liar is such a despicable character ; I wish he would study Herbert, who says — ' Nothing can need a lie : A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.' As I lie awake at night disturbed by our neighbour's harp, I think of the time when ' the lyre was... | |
 | 1870 - 716 pages
...Dear young friends, I entreat you not to deceive people, and never to tell any lie. " DiKE TO BE TBUB. Nothing can need a lie: A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby." You may very easily get into this bad habit, and then find that you cannot master it. Because it is... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 298 pages
...both : Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. One reason why truth should be spoken is that the knowledge which any person can have from the use... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 200 pages
...both : Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. Be thrifty but not covetous ; therefore give Thy need, thy honour, and thy friend his due. Never was... | |
 | Arthur Guthrie - 1872 - 300 pages
...both : Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. George Herbert. July 23. BLESSED are the peacemakers : for they shall be l) called the children of... | |
 | 1872 - 692 pages
...both. Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod ; Thi stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. Laugh not too much. The witty man laughs least : For wit is news only to ignorance. Less at thy own... | |
 | E. Rosalie Salmon - 1872 - 176 pages
...round their mother's knee to say their prayers, and to ask God to take care of them. CHAPTER II. " Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs it most grows two thereby." GEORGE HERBERT. OOME time passed, and Claud's mishap in the **-^ schoolroom was still undiscovered,... | |
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Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both : Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : A fault, which needs it most,... 
