"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."

Truth, Man, May, Order

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"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."

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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

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

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"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

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"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."

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"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"You have nothing to lose, only to live."

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"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

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"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."

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"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."

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"In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates."

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"A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it."

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"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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"Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said."

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