A Falsehood is, in one sense, ...

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.