so evil eyes, that it cannot delight in the Sir P. Sidney.

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27. Nature loves truth so well that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. Pope.

28. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than truth. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellencies and endowments of the human mind.

Cicero.

29. The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. Emerson.

30. Accustom your children to a strict attention to truth, even in the most minute particulars. If a thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them: you do not know where deviation from truth will end.

Johnson.

31. Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.

Archbishop Whately.

CHAPTER XXV.

FALSEHOOD AND HYPOCRISY.

Ah! doom'd indeed to worse than death,
To teach those sweet lips hourly guile;
And smile with falsehood's smile!

To breathe through life but falsehood's breath,
Mrs. Osgood.

1. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. Lord Chesterfield.

2. Never chase a lie; if you let it alone, it will soon run itself to death. E. Nott.

3. A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it. E. W. Rice. 4. Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

G. W. Thornbury.

5. Do not let us lie at all. Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and another as slight, and another as unintended.

Ruskin.

6. No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one.

Hawthorne.

7. Either be what thou seemest, or else be what thou art. William Dyer.

8. There are some persons who would not, for their lives, tell a direct and wilful lie, but who so exaggerate that it seems as if, for their lives, they could not tell the exact truth. F. E. Paget. 9. The heart of a liar lies more than his tongue. Arabian Proverb. IO. The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. Lavater.

II. Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. Colton.

12. The upright minister asks "what recommends a man;" a corrupt minister, "who?" Colton.

13. He who prays as he ought, will endeavor to live as he prays. J. B. Owen. 14. If Satan ever laughs, it must be at

hypocrites: they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any others, but rceive no wages. Colton.

15. The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it. Richard Cecil.

16. The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is in itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt.

17. It is too much proved, that, with devotion's visage and pious actions, we do sugar over the devil himself.

Shakespeare.

18. Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practiced upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the State prison. C. N. Bovee.

19. Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbors' reputation on week-days. H. W. Beecher.

20. He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises, is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary, is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants, is an impostor. Lavater.

21. Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end, or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice, and partly habit. quires an effort in them to speak the truth. William Hazlitt.

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22. Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

Zimmerman.

23. Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood. H. Ballou. 24. Falsehood is the devil's daughter, and speaks her father's tongue.