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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.


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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are ...
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LORRIN L. LEE What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES What lies ahead of you and what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you.
MOHANDAS GANDHI What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
ANON. Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES The answer we can't find lies beyond what we know, but not beyond an open mind and heart.
JIM GENOVESE Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.
KAPIL DEV What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
ARISTOTLE We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within.
ELEESHA The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle sm...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY We are men of action, lies do not become us.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies ...
THOMAS CARLYLE You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Learn as you go! Don't think you have to learn everything, in order to do anything. The best knowled...
WILLIAM MERRICK To find why that happen and why this is happening, you should start from the beginning the problem c...
DEYTH BANGER How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of i...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; no...
W.E.B. DU BOIS What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
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GERMANY KENT The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: ins...
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KARL KRAUS What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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LEONARD PEIKOFF True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant makes it quite clear that sympathetic feelings are often w...
JENS TIMMERMANN I do not know what I do not know and therein lies the problem.
JIM GENOVESE Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night a...
CHARLES SPURGEON Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if t...
PERCY CERUTTY Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if t...
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TERRY PRATCHETT The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
OSCAR WILDE Men do not attract what they want, but what they are.
JAMES ALLEN We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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DEYTH BANGER All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
AHMED ABU All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
AHMED OMAR ABU ALI People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
TAHEREH MAFI When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies."
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beaut...
AMY DAVIS The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world...
JAMES A. FROUDE Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.
SARAH J. MAAS You are what you are, and what you are is not me!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The truth lies in your knowledge and right or wrong is a mere argument of what you know and what you...
PRATIK SHARDA It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putti...
IYANLA VANZANT Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...
T.H. WHITE The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. ...
RICHARD BACH Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
KHALIL GIBRAN Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.
MARGARET KEANE Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.
FREDRIK BACKMAN Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
VOLTAIRE Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Remains to be seen what will happen at that point.
RICHARD LIES Honor lies in honest toil.
STEVEN GROVER CLEVELAND Honor lies in honest toil.
GROVER CLEVELAND I don't know what lies ahead, but I do know who the head is and he does not lie!
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HOWARD ZINN Art is not a metonym for truth telling. All art is a form of a falsifying; otherwise why would anyon...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
MARTIN H. FISCHER The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are ar...
SENECA Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary fr...
RUSSELL M. NELSON Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why m...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me...
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DUANE HEWITT Beyond the Alps lies Italy.
JAMES WILLIAM FOLEY What lies ahead of you is challenging but beautiful.
DEBASISH MRIDHA You will have to walk on the road yourself, it will not tell you what lies ahead.
VIKRANT PARSAI True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. P...
ALEXANDER POPE Lies happen because you hide what you really feel or how it really is
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SENECA Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
HEINRICH HEINE

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Watch the turmoil of beings
but contemplate their return.
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