"There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part."

Truth, Being, Conflict, Error

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"There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Truth, Power, Thought, Symbol, Character

"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The living souls have the breath of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Truth, Living, Breath, Life, Existence

"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Truth, Death, Life, End

"What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Truth, Lies, Perception, Reality

"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Truth, Knowledge, Denial, Reality

"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."

Barbara Boxer, American Politician

Truth, People, Democracy

"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Truth, Deception, Self, Comfort

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others."

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"If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man."

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"The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature."

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"Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed."

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"If you live for fame, men may turn against you."

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"If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim."

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"If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!"

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"Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause."

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