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01c. 1815 AD

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

Thomas Moore / quote

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02c. 1815 AD

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,— There 's nothing true but Heaven.

Thomas Moore / quote

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03c. 1817 AD

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.

Daniel Webster / quote

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04c. 1817 AD

There is nothing so powerful as truth,—and often nothing so strange.

Daniel Webster / quote

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05c. 1813 AD

Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.

Samuel Woodworth / quote

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06c. 1806 AD

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,— Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron / quote

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07c. 1806 AD

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

Lord Byron / quote

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08c. 1806 AD

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

Lord Byron / quote

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09c. 1806 AD

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caress More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties—give me a cigar!

Lord Byron / quote

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10c. 1806 AD

There 's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion.

Lord Byron / quote

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11c. 1806 AD

And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade.

Lord Byron / quote

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12c. 1806 AD

'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,— Stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron / quote

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13c. 1807 AD

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote

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14c. 1836 AD

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,— The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.

William Cullen Bryant / quote

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15c. 1808 AD

Dance and Provençal song and sunburnt mirth! Oh for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stainèd mouth.

John Keats / quote

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16c. 1808 AD

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats / quote

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17c. 1838 AD

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

Thomas Carlyle / quote

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18c. 1838 AD

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

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19c. 909 AD

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

Sir Henry Taylor / quote

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20c. 1842 AD

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,— "'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die."

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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21c. 1841 AD

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

William Lloyd Garrison / quote

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22c. 1831 AD

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder'd its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

Robert Montgomery / quote

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23c. 1844 AD

For Time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest!

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

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24c. 1809 AD

Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet! Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

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