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e is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.--TILLOTSON. You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.--HORACE MANN. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.--BACON. Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.--CHARLES SUMNER. The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice; and her constant companion is humility.--COLTON. I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.--PALEY. Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.--HORACE MANN. Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication, a duty.--MME. DE STAEL. Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity. --WHITTIER. Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.--TILLOTSON. The expression of truth is simplicity.--SENECA. What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.--DEMOSTHENES. Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.--WHITTIER. The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed, but where they speak and think and do what they must, because they are so and not otherwise.--EMERSON. UNHAPPINESS.--The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.--HENRY HOME. A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.--CICERO. What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.--GOETHE. VANITY.--All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.--AUERBACH. There is no limit to the
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