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" No sentence will hold the whole truth, and the only way in which we can be just, is by giving ourselves the lie... "
The Dublin Review - Page 162
edited by - 1849
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The Bible and the people, Volume 1

1851 - 588 pages
...contradictions as we can, but their discord and their concord, introduce WILD ABSURDITIES into our thinking and speech. No sentence will hold the whole truth, and...which we can be just, is BY GIVING OURSELVES THE LIE. • An Address, &c. t Ibid. Speech is better than silence ; silence is better than speech ; — all...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 90

1902 - 902 pages
...character rather than of temperament. "No sentence will hold the whole truth, " this prophet exclaims, "and the only way in which we can be just is by giving ourselves the lie." And again, " I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods, " — a sentence one might...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...contradictions as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech. No sentence will hold the whole truth, and...Speech is better than silence ; silence is better th;in speech ; — All things are in contact ; every atom has a sphere of repulsion ; — Things are,...
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The Christian Ambassador, Volume 13

1875 - 402 pages
...thoughts to-day. So far is he from being the light of the world, that he says, ' No sentence can contain the whole truth, and the only way in which we can be just is by giving ourselves the lie.' How distant are we here from Him whose life and death were one long and glorious testimony to the truth...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 27; Volume 35; Volume 57

1875 - 718 pages
...thoughts to day. So far is he from being the light of the world, that he says, " No sentence can contain the whole truth, and the only way in which we can be just is by giving ourselves the lie." How distant are we here from Him whose life and death were one long and glorious testimony to the truth...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...contradictions as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech. No sentence will hold the whole truth, and...Things are, and are not, at the same time; — and tlie like. All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face, creator-creature, mind-matter,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...contradictions as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech. No sentence will hold the whole truth, and...Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech;—All things are in contact; every atom has a sphere of repulsion; — Tiiings are, and are...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...which we can be just, is by giving ourf selves the lie ; Speech is better than silence ; si) lence is better than speech ; — All things are in contact...; ( — Things are, and are not, at the same time ;J v— and the like. All the universe over, there is /but one thing, this old Two-Face, creator-creal...
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Lobb's theological quarterly (with which is incorporated ..., Volume 1

1884 - 668 pages
...thoughts to-day. So far is he from being the light of the world, that he says, "No sentence can contain the whole truth, and the only way in which we can be just is by giving ourselves the lie." How distant are we here from Him whose life and death were one long and glorious testimony to the truth...
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The Public-school Journal: Devoted to the Theory and Art of ..., Volume 17

1898 - 682 pages
...CAN THE HIGH SCHOOL BE BROUGHT INTO CLOSER TOUCH WITH THE PEOPLE? 8UPT. FRANK H. HALL. INSTITUTION "No sentence will hold the whole truth and the only...In which we can be just Is by giving ourselves the He." — Emergen. Some one has defined "common sense" as "the intuitive perception of the fitness of...
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