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Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: Th' eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. - William Cullen Bryant, The Battle Field (st. 9) As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world." - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Caxtoniana (essay XIV) Arm thyself for the truth! - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Lady of Lyons (act V, sc. 1) Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them. - John Bunyan Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer. - Edmund Burke For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 257) 'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto III) More proselytes and converts use t' accrue To false persuasions than the right and true; For error and mistake are infinite, But truth has but one way to be i' th' right. - Samuel Butler (1), Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 113) All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them. - Charles Buxton Whenever you look at human nature in masses, you find every truth met by a counter truth, and both equally true. - Charles Buxton All that I know is, that the facts I state Are true as truth has ever been of late. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) It is strange, but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) No words suffice the secret soul to show, For Truth denies all eloquence to Woe. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Corsair (canto III, st. 22) 'Tis strange--but true; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XIV, st. 101) A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. - Albert Camus Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it! - Thomas Carlyle The genuine essence of truth never dies. - Thomas Carlyle The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. - Thomas Carlyle "Truth," I cried, "though the heavens crush me for following her; no falsehood, though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of apostasy!" - Thomas Carlyle A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. - Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship (IV) What I tell you three times is true. - Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles L. Dodgson), The Hunting of the Snark I have found out the art of deceiving diplomatists; I speak the truth, and I am certain they will not believe me. - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Displaying page 3 of 19 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
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