Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be....
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
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