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01c. 1640 AD

For truth is precious and divine,— Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler / quote

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02c. 1640 AD

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more.

Samuel Butler / quote

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03c. 1640 AD

'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows They shall be suffer'd to espouse.

Samuel Butler / quote

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04c. 1640 AD

True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.

Samuel Butler / quote

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05c. 1643 AD

Too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

Sir Thomas Browne / quote

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06c. 1641 AD

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring.

John Milton / quote

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07c. 1641 AD

Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

John Milton / quote

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08c. 1641 AD

Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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09c. 1641 AD

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

John Milton / quote

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10c. 1641 AD

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

John Milton / quote

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11c. 1641 AD

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

John Milton / quote

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12c. 1641 AD

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

John Milton / quote

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13c. 1641 AD

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

John Milton / quote

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14c. 1641 AD

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

John Milton / quote

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15c. 1666 AD

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

John Dryden / quote

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16c. 1666 AD

The true Amphitryon.

John Dryden / quote

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17c. 1684 AD

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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton / quote

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18c. 1668 AD

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you: There 's in you all that we believe of heaven,— Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

Thomas Otway / quote

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19c. 1688 AD

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Mathew Henry / quote

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20c. 1692 AD

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Matthew Prior / quote

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21c. 1695 AD

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.

Joseph Addison / quote

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22c. 1707 AD

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

Barton Booth / quote

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23c. 1716 AD

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

Alexander Pope / quote

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24c. 1716 AD

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,— The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Alexander Pope / quote

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Truth.

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