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Truth Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
- A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are…
- Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
- He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction,…
- There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of…
- Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
- The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only…
- Reason and truth will prevail at last
- There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.
- I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
- A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
- Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do…
- Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself…
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