Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.
Anne Bront
But to tell you the truth, Mr. Boarham, it is on my own account I principally object; so let us - drop the subject, for it is worse than useless to pursue it any further
Anne Bront
And indeed I know not whether, at the time, it was not for him rather than myself that I blushed; for, since he and I are one, I so identify myself with him, that I feel his degradation, his failings, and transgressions as my own; I blush for him, I fear for him; I repent for him, weep, pray, and feel for him as for myself; but I cannot act for him; and hence, I must be and I am, debased, contaminated by the union, both in my own eyes, and in the actual truth.
Anne Bront
First melted off the hope of youth Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew And then experience told me truth In mortal bosoms never grew 'Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow servile insincere But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same corruption there
Emily Jane Bront
Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals; My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels Its wings are almost free, its home, its harbour found; Measuring the gulf, it stoops and dares the final bound
Emily Jane Bront
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
Walter Lippman
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.
Charles Bradlaugh
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
Francis Herbert Bradley
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
Francis Herbert Bradley
I have not studied in this you read to show you my skill but to declare the truth, not to set forth myself, but to the glory of God.
Anne Bradstreet
It appears to [Nietzsche] that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man First, Rousseaus man, the Titan who raises himself and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethes man a spectator of the world [Third] Schopenhauers man voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.
Robert Seymour Bridges
But I can tell let truth be told That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.
Robert Seymour Bridges