"But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day."
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"Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil."
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"But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it."
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"Is not the truth the truth?"
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"If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre."
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"Truth takes no account of centuries."
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"Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened."
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"There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before."
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"No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report."
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"Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!"
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"When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?"
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"There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth."
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"There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas."
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"For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true."
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"If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep."
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"But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back."
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"[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself."
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"A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it."
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"If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting."
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"Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these."
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