Quote#Truth
And he that does one fault at first
Quote byIsaac Watts · 1674–1748
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715), Song 15. Compare: "Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby", George Herbert, The Church Porch..
English (original)
And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
— Isaac Watts
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Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul; The mind's the standard of the man.
There's not a place where we can flee, But God is present there.
Just as a tree cut down, that fell To north, or southward, there it lies: So man departs to heaven or hell, Fix'd in the state wherein he dies.