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In troubled water you can scarce see your face, or see it very little, till the water be quiet and stand still: so in troubled times you can see little truth; when times are quiet and settled, then truth appears.
In troubled water you can scarce see your face, or see it very little, till the water be quiet and stand still: so in troubled times you can see little truth; when times are quiet and settled, then truth appears.
Approximate author period: c. 1619 AD · renaissance
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- Author or tradition
- John Selden
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- Approximate author period: c. 1619 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1584–1654)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 265 · printed citation: Selden · subject: Truth
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