Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. 5527 Milton: The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty. Bk. ii. Introduction. For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no politics, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power: give her but room, and do not bind her when she sleeps. 5528 Milton: Areopagitica. The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth? 5529 Milton: Of Reformation in England. Bk. i. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. 5530 Milton: Areopagitica. Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on. 5531 Milton: Areopagitica. Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. 5532 Milton: The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Truth alone wounds. 5533 Napoleon I.: To O'Meara, March 14, 1817. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. 5534 Isaac Newton: Memoirs of Newton, by Brewster. Ch. 27. We find truth, not construct it. It exists anterior to the human mind. It is there though we have not encountered it; it exists though our thoughts have not formulated it. The truths of science are not true because the foremost men of science have concluded and agreed to have them true. Truth is no conventional matter. We cannot exact truths, however we may be able sometimes to discover them. Truth Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. III. Coming The agreeable and the real are requisite; but this agreeable must itself be found in the truth. 5536 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. ix. xxviii. (Wight, Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of the truth, that he may live a true man as long as possible, for then he can be trusted; but he is not to be trusted who loves voluntary falsehood, and he who loves involuntary falsehood is a fool. 5537 Plato: Laws. IV. 255. (Jowett, Translator.) To truth belongs freedom. 5538 Richter: Levana. Sixth Fragment. Ch. 2. Sec. 113. (A. H., Trans. Bohn edition.) Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble fingers, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain, - which it is the pride of utmost age to recover. 5539 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Preface. (Second Truth is open unto all men; she is not as yet borne away all; there is much of her left for posterity to find out. 5540 Seneca: Works. Epistle. No. 34. (Thomas Lodge, Editor.) Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us. 5541 Seneca: Works. Epistle. No. 78. (Thomas An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. 5542 John Sterling: Essays and Tales. Thoughts. Knowledge, or more expressively Truth, for Knowledge is Truth received into our Intelligence, Truth is an Ideal Whole. 5543 John Sterling: Essays and Tales. Critical Essays. The Worth of Knowledge. Truth is strengthened by observation and time, pretences by haste and uncertainty. 5544 Tacitus: The Annals. Bk. ii. Ch. 40, Sec. 39. (Oxford translation.) Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses a particle of it. 5545 Henry D. Thoreau: Winter. Journal, June 26, 1852. All truth is to be digested, assimilated, developed into life, before it really becomes a possession no less than before it becomes a power. 5546 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. Truth is truth, come whence it may. Daniel Webster: Argument, April 6, 1830. The Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. 5548 Whittier: Prose Works. Charms and Fairy Faith. TRUTHFULNESS - see Falsehood, Lying. Truth... will ever rise above falsehood, like oil above water. 5549 Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. ii. Ch. 10. (Jarvis, Translator.) The pre-eminence of truth over falsehood, even when occasioned by that truth, is as a gentle fountain breathing from forth its air-let into the snow piled over and around it, which it turns into its own substance, and flows with greater murmur; and, though it be again arrested, still it is but for a time: it awaits only the change of the wind, to awake and roll onwards its ever increasing stream. 5550 Coleridge: Omniana. Truth and Falsehood. An honest man speaks truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. 5551 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 387. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth. 5552 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1784. (Routledge edition, Vol. iv. Ch. 11.) Sincerity and pure truth, in what age soever, find their opportunity and advantage. 5553 Montaigne Essays. Bk. iii. Ch. 1. (Hazlitt, Truthfulness I mean the fact of speaking the truth intentionally, and even to the injury of self-is less a man's moral strength of character. Sixth Fragment. Ch. 11, Sec. 109. branch than a blossom of 5554 Richter: Levana. Reason teaches us to be silent; the heart teaches us to speak. 5555 Richter: Levana. Fourth Fragment. Ch. 2, Sec. 113. Truthfulness, as a conscious virtue and sacrifice, is the blossom, nay, the pollen, of the whole moral growth; it can only grow with its growth, and open when it has reached its height. 5556 Richter: Levana. Fourth Fragment. Ch. 2, Sec. 113. Is not the truth the truth? 5558 5557 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act ii. Sc. 4. Tell truth, and shame the devil. Swift: Mary the Cookmaid's Letter. see Night. Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. 5561 TYRANNY Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. iv. Ch. 4. see Despotism, Doubt, Government. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. 5562 Burke: Speech, Bristol, previous to the I have no idea of a liberty unconnected with honesty and justice. Nor do I believe that any good constitutions of government or of freedom can find it necessary for their security to doom any part of the people to a permanent slavery. Such a constitution of freedom, if such can be, is in effect no more than another name for the tyranny of the strongest faction. 5563 Burke: Speech, Bristol, previous to the Election. 1780. There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. Power is nothing but as it is felt, and the delight of superiority is proportionate to the resistance overcome. 5564 Johnson: Letters to and from the Late Samuel There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. 5565 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. II. 170. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) 550 TYRANNY - TYRANTS. A man's tyranny is measured only by his power to abuse. There is no tyranny so despotic as that of public opinion among a free people. 5567 Donn Piatt: Memories of the Men who Saved the Where law ends, tyranny begins. 5568 William Pitt (Earl of Chatham): Speech, Jan. 9, When the will of man is raised above law it is always tyranny and despotism, whether it is the will of a bashaw or of bastard patriots. 5569 Noah Webster: Essays. The Times. (American TYRANTS Men of Letters.) see Despotism, Government, Liberty, Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. 5570 Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France. Tyrants commonly cut off the stairs by which they climb up unto their thrones. for fear that, if they still be left standing, others will get up the same way. 5571 Thomas Fuller: History of the Worthies of England. Ch. 23. On the Authorities from which the Work has been Derived. To a native of free and happy governments his country is always dear; "He loves his old hereditary trees" (COWLEY) Thomas Gray: The Alliance of Education and Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Inscription on a Cannon near which the ashes of The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no law but his caprice. 5574 Voltaire: A Philosophical Dictionary. Tyranny. |
