Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;

Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;
But best is best, if never intermix'd.

Sonnet CI.

5

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

ARCHBISHOP WHATELEY-Essay on some of the
Difficulties in the Writings of the Apostle
Paul.-No. 1. On the Love of Truth.

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(See also LINCOLN under GOD)

The sages say, Dame Truth delights to dwell
(Strange Mansion!) in the bottom of a well:

When my love swears that she is made of truth, Questions are then the Windlass and the rope
I do believe her, though I know she lies.

Sonnet. CXXXVIII.

6

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

BERNARD SHAW—Annajanska.

7

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

BERNARD SHAW-John Bull's Other Island.
Act II.

8

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

MADAME DE STAËL Coppet et Weimar.
Letter to Gen. Moreau.

9

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

SWIFT-Mary, the Cookmaid's Letter. RABE-
LAIS-Works. Author's Prologue to Bk.
V. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER-Wit Without
Money. Act IV. Sc. 1. Henry IV. Pt. I.
Sc. 1. L. 59.

10

Veritas visu et mora, falsa festinatione et incertis valescunt.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay: falsehood by haste and uncertainty. TACITUS-Annales. II. 39.

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Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named?
TENNYSON-Ode on the Death of the Duke of
Wellington.

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And friendly free discussion calling forth
From the fair jewel Truth its latent ray.
THOMSON-Liberty. Pt. II. L. 220.

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It takes two to speak the truth-one to speak, and another to hear.

THOREAU-A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. P. 283.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

VOLTAIRE Letter to Cardinal de Bernis.
April 23, 1761.

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There is nothing so powerful as truth; and often nothing so strange.

DANIEL WEBSTER-Arguments on the Murder of Captain White. Vol. VI. P. 68.