I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
Thou common friend, that's without faith or love-
For such is a friend now; treacherous man,
Thou hast beguil'd my hopes; nought but mine eye
Could have persuaded me.
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not the earth has it not the sea has it not and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.
Hopes, what are they - Beads of morning Strung on slender blades of grass Or a spider's web adorning In a straight and treacherous pass.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Of Medicine The life so short, the art so long to learn, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death -- fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.
He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
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