The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of late become common property.
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Amos Bronson Alcott—Concord Days. June. Goethe.
But no pleasure is comparable to the standing
upon the vantage ground of Truth.
Bacon—Essays. Of Truth.
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Beattie—The Minstrel. Bk. II. St. 53.
To say the truth, though I say 't that should
not say 't.
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Weapons. Act II.
La verity n'a point cet air impe'tueux.
Truth has not such an urgent air.
Boileau—L'Art PoUique. I. 198.
Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.
At times truth may not seem probable.
Boileau—L'Art Po&tique. III. 48.
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| text = Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed.
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed.
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.
Horattus Bonar—Hymns of Faith and Hope.
P. 113. (Ed. 1867)
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| text = <poem>^lagna est Veritas et praevalebit.
Truth is mighty and will prevail.
Thomas Brooks is said to have been the first
to use the expression. (1662) Found in
Scott—Talisman. Ch. XIX. Bishop
Jewel. Purchas—Microcosmus. Thackeray—Roundohoul Papers.
O magna vis Veritas. Found in Cicero—
Oratio Pro Ccelio Rufo. XXVI.
Se non 6 vero, e molto ben trovato.
If it is not true it is very well invented.
Giordano Bruno—DegliEraiciFurcri. Cardinal d'Este. Of Ariosto's Orlando FuTruth crushed to earth shall rise again:
Th' eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
Bryant—The Battle Field. St. 9.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one
track of light—every eye looking on finds its
own.
Bulwer-Lytton—Caxtoniana. Essay XIV.
Arm thyself for the truth!
Bulwer-Lytton—Lady of Lyons. Act V.
Sc. 1.
Better be cheated to the last,
Than lose the blessed hope of truth.
Mrs. Butler (Fanny Kemble).
For truth is precious and divine;
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto H. L.
257.
’Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III.
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| text = <poem>More proselytes and converts use t' accrue
To false persuasions than the right and true;
For error'and mistake are infinite ;
But truth has but one way to be i' th' right.
Butler—Miscellaneous Thoughts. L. 113.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For Truth denies all eloquence to Woe.
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| work = Corsair. Canto in. St. 22.
’Tis strange—but true; for truth is always
strange,
Stranger than fiction.
Byron—Don Juan. Canto XIV. St. 101.
A man protesting against error is on the way
towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
Carlyle—Heroes and Hero Worship. IV.
Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are
disputed.
G. K. Chesterton—Heretics.
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye,
Men will believe, because they love the lie;
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown,
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
Churchill—Epistle to Hogarth. L. 291.
Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hie non majore
religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.
He who has once deviated from the truth,
usually commits perjury with as little scruple
as he would tell a lie.
Cicero—Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comado.
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