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Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
— George Eliot Adam Bede
Tags: truth, lies

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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