Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 62

TRUTH.--There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.--WHATELY.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of G.o.d are hers; But error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshipers.

--BRYANT.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.--AMMIAN.

And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is truth, and mighty above all things.--ESDRAS.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seash.o.r.e, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier sh.e.l.l than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.--NEWTON.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.

--DRYDEN.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.--WALTER SCOTT.

Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by silence.--AMMIAN.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie 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 const.i.tution, 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 n.o.blest 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 G.o.d 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 n.o.blest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is a.s.sumed, 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 vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.--H.W. SHAW.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.--POPE.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.--ADDISON.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure; but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.--LA BRUYeRE.

Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices--the vices of affectation and common lying.--ADAM SMITH.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.--SHAKESPEARE.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.--WASHINGTON.

Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible.--STEELE.

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

Vanity is a strange pa.s.sion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.--H.W. SHAW.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

--MRS. JAMESON.

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her gla.s.s.--LAVATER.

Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity.--PSALM 39:5.

VICE.--Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.--COLTON.

The vicious obey their pa.s.sions, as slaves do their masters.--DIOGENES.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.--PLUTARCH.

Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains.--COLTON.

One sin another doth provoke.--SHAKESPEARE.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.--FRANKLIN.