To love truth for truth's sake, is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. LOCKE-Letter to Anthony Collins, Esq. I have already The bitter taste of death upon my lips; I feel the pressure of the heavy weight That will crush out my life within this hour; But if a word could save me, aud that word Were not the Truth; nay, if it did but swerve A hair's-breadth from the Truth, I would not Say it!

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LONGFELLOW-Christus. Pt. III. Giles Corey. Act V. Se. 2. When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torches fire

Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus truth silences the liar.

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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its

Essay XIV.

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so: for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed. m. HAZLITT--The Spirit of the Age. Jeremy Bentham.

Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

n. HERBERT The Temple. The Church Porch.

There is no veil like light-no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth. GEORGE MACDONALD--The Marquis of Lossie. Ch. LXXI.

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

MILTON--The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth. f. PINDAR.

Truth is the source of every good to gods and men. He who expects to be blessed and fortunate in this world should be a partaker of it from the earliest moment of his life, that he may live as long as possible a person of truth for such a man is trustworthy. g. PLATO-Seg. V. 3.

A face untaught to feign; a judging Eye,
That darts severe upon a rising Lie.

h. POPE--Epistle to James Craggs.
Farewell then Verse, and Love, and ev'ry Toy,
The Rhymes and Rattles of the Man or Boy;
What right, what true, what fit we justly call,
Let this be all my care-for this is All.
i. POPE-First Book of Horace. Ep. I.
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Plain truth, * needs no flow'rs of speech.
J. POPE-First Book of Horace. Ep. VI.

Mark now,

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how plain a tale shall put you

Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4. Methinks, the truth should live from age to age,

As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,
Even to the general all-ending day.
p. Richard III. Act III. Sc. 1.

Tell'truth, and shame the devil. If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither.

And I'll be sworn, I have power to shame him hence.

O, while you live, tell truth: and shame the devil.

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Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 2. What, can the devil speak true? Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 3.

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Along the west the golden bars
Still to a deeper glory grew;
Above our heads the faint few stars
Looked out from the unfathomed blue;
And the fair city's clamorous jars

Seemed melted in the evening hue. n. W. B. GLAZIER-Cape-Collage at Sunset. In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,

Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald of day,

And to await, with impatience, the gaze of the ruler of heaven.

Youthful delight, oh how oft lur'st thou me out in the night!

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GOETHE-Venetian Epigrams.

The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea. LONGFELLOW-Twilight.

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Sea.

From that high mount of God whence light and shade

Spring both, the face of brightest Heaven had changed

To grateful twilight.

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MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. V. Line 643.