George Eliot Quotes About Truth
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Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.
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The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
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It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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