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Rh No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. —.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. —.

Time, beneath whose influence the pyramids moulder into dust, and the flinty rocks decay, does not and cannot destroy a fact, nor strip a truth of one portion of its essential importance.

Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion. —.

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression. —.

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true. —.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love. —.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order. —.

Peace, if possible, but the truth at any rate. —.