When we love, how eagerly does it drink in the light from behind the closed door--keen with expectation, it yet wastes not a minute, and the light that steals through the apertures becomes beauty and truth to the soul.
For that truth, was our truth as regards death, destiny or love, and it was in silence only that we could perceive it.
Its nature changes from the moment that it manifests itself by means of an exterior act; and we are no longer in the truth according to the soul, but in a kind of falsehood as conceived by man.
In all truth might it be said that beauty is the unique aliment of our soul, for in all places does it search for beauty, and it perishes not of hunger even in the most degraded of lives.
Loving thus, we perceive truth in happiness as profoundly as some of the heroes perceived it in the radiance of greatest sorrow.
Even though perhaps you had been of those who commended him, you would none the less, when it was truththat knocked at your door, turn to the man who had known how to prostrate himself and love.
And would it not be in accordance with the primal truth if all men were to feel that they were face to face with each other, even as the woman feels with the man she loves?
Mr. and Mrs. March were sorry to part from these good old people; and yet, if the whole truth were told, it must be owned that they felt a sense of relief when they were gone.
The truth was, that this time they had entirely forgotten it: they were so excited by the hopes of finding a mine.
But the truth was, Nelly really cared a great deal more about almost everything, than he did.
If the whole truth were told, it must be owned that they were both very unhappy.
The truth was, that they had grown so accustomed to the asthmatic, wheezy tone, that they did not notice it.
I would like to know the exact truthabout it before I go any farther.
You see, I recognized some truth in what you said, and I determined to do a little to take away our reproach.
I know there is no truth but in Thee,--no sincerity, no constancy.
Not much the doubt Comnenus would stand well with times to come, Were there the hand to write his threnody, Yet is he in sad truth a faulty man.
Surely all that's wanting now is a conviction of thetruth of your teaching?
Now, there is not a word of truth in that--and for excellent reasons.
I think it would be nearer the truth to say that Minnie Carmody's delicacy comes from the vinegar bottle and white paper.
Too well the result proved the truth of their prophetic announcement!
To prevent truth from having an impartial hearing and explanation, the plans of government were obliged to be of an insincere and unjust character.
The time will probably arrive when we may be permitted to enter more fully into this atrocious business, and then we shall not spare the "Oppressors of Innocence," for truth is bold, and not always to be defied!
The personage who made this offer is NOW ALIVE, and if this statement of simple truth meet his eye, surely the blush of shame will die his hardened cheek.
The prince was much displeased that any subject should have dared to take such a liberty as to speak or write an unpleasant TRUTH to any of his noble family,--more especially to the queen.
Truth is of but little worth till it is so crystallized.
The passion and truth of life flame up into serene but steadfast glow.
Truth lying dissolved in oceans of error and nonsense and ignorance makes but a feeble diluent.
If it is not a perfectly plain and patent truth, on the very face of it, then I am utterly incapable of distinguishing between truth and falsehood.
If this is not true, then I know not what truth is.
I am endeavoring to present only one side of a truth which is many-sided,--and that side is, that great deeds are done by those who aspire greatly.
I ought to look happy, I've had wonderful luck, but the truth is, I'm utterly tired.
The truth is, men like admiration and praise just as much as women do, though it is part of their strange code to conceal this.
Of course no very young people will believe this, but it is a horrid sordid truth that, as a rule, the happiest marriages are those in which the couple do not love too intensely.
The brilliant anonymous author of The Truth about Man advises women to remember that men 'must never be contradicted, reproached, or censured.
That ignorance is bliss is a profound truth in married life and wives should strive to be guided by it.
But that something in human society is apt to go wrong the moment the homo sapiens leaves the straight path between the economic too much and too little is a truth which we are willing to defend against all comers.
The Provisionals, recognizing the truth of this statement, fearing another restoration, asked time for deliberation.
Nay, Brother of the Acrid Pen, was it not the truth which hurt thee so unexpectedly rather than my scornful irony?
Truth is, that the old government is hopelessly beyond repair.
Inasmuch, however, as every author is possessed by a definite purpose, we may suggest, for the guidance of the student, a tentative analysis of a selection which may aid him in reflecting its truth to an audience.
The constant endeavor of the teacher, therefore, must be to inspire the pupil to serve his audience through truth, the truth of his discourse.
In determining this higher service we are reconstructing our whole from the unit of the selection to the revelation of truth resulting from the relationship of parts; the analysis must culminate in synthesis, else it would defeat its purpose.
His attempt to gain the attention of his hearers and to concentrate their minds on this truth will secure such concentration of his own mind as will stimulate his interest, and interest is always vital.
At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
Yet, nevertheless, there is a great deal of truth in the declaration of Napoleon that he would rather have his army in command of one poor general than of two good ones.
The truthwas perhaps aptly represented by President Lincoln when presented at the same time with two hats by rival hatters.
A foolish and culpable silence on the part of most parents leaves their children to learn, too often from vicious companions, sacred truth in an unhallowed way.
The truth properly told has never yet harmed a child; silence, false modesty and mystery have corrupted the souls and bodies of untold millions.
The truth is that the sole and only failure is found in the mistaken and unworthy views held, concerning marriage, by one or both parties to the contract.
Mrs. Joseph Cook "It illuminates the Holy of Holies in the most sacred of earthly relationships with the white light of truthand purity.
Henry Ward Beecher once said that since so much depends upon one's ancestors, a man ought to be very careful in choosing his grandparents; and there is a vast deal of truth suggested by this statement.
And I think that Mr Maguire believed what he was saying, and that he believed, moreover, that he was speaking the truth when he told Mr Walker that the lady had promised to marry him.
The truth is, Tom, that I don't know anybody anywhere.
Mr Slow then told her that a London paper had copied the whole story of the "Lion and the Lamb," expressing a hope that the lion would be exposed if there was any truth in it, and the writer would be exposed if there was none.
But the mode of her life was as near that as prose may be near to poetry, or truth to romance.
DEAR SIR, I am much obliged by your letter about the money; but the truth is that I have known for some time that there was to be no mortgage.
The whole truth had been told to him as plainly as it had been told to Mr Ball, and nevertheless he determined to persevere.
He fixed it apparently on the corners of the wall, but in truth upon her, and then he began: "I am so glad that you have come among us, Miss Mackenzie.
The reader must remember that this clergyman no doubt thought and felt that he had a good deal of truth on his side.
The truth is, Mrs Mackenzie, that he has no more idea of marrying me than he has of marrying you.
There had been a moment or two, the moments of his bitterest confessions, in which she had in truth liked him much.
I implore you then to tell me, is there entire truth in this awful tale; and if so, to entreat your injured friend to allow no farther guilt to be accumulated on the unhappy offender's soul.
Mr. de Burgh, passionately, "how can you sit there, and distort the truth in that shameful manner?
Had she but read signs of grief, of sickness, written there, and her heart would have gone forth to soothe and sympathize with all the truth and fervour of the past.
But then her silence would but for a few hours postpone the intelligence--the truth would be revealed by Mary on the first opportunity, if it transpired not through other means.
Mary, who, with a faint and gentle smile, very different in its character to that which played so brightly on the features of the other, acquiesced in the truth of the assertion.
You assume that the mind of the orator, the historian, the philosopher, is given up wholly to the truth of his matter.
You understood not my urgent appeal to you to join the cause of truth and loyalty, and fight by your father's side.
To confess the truth she has; and though, from my inferior situation in life, I can never aspire to the gaining of her affections, she may still have to thank me for saving her from ruin.
And this could not have been, unless there were children in Jerusalem who saw intotruth with a far sharper eye than Sanhedrims and Rabbis.
To tell you the truth I've rather hated this Utopia of yours at times.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
Plato turned his back on truth when he turned towards his museum of specific ideals.
Classification and number, which in truth ignore the fine differences of objective realities, have in the past of human thought been imposed upon things.
But not when you make what are called philosophical and theological inquiries, when you turn your implement towards the final absolute truth of things.
The truth might come from that direction, bit by bit, piecing the different parts of the story together.
Clo had told the truth in pleading hunger, but when she was alone and had locked her door, she took from the tray only the steel knife and fork which lay beside the plate.
If he had done this, he would have learned the truth about that envelope.
The girl was a strange girl, audacious and unscrupulous in her loyalty to Mrs. Sands; but she could not have told her story in a way to impress its truth upon him unless she had been sincere.
The truth of the last two of these representations will be overwhelmingly evident from the chart on the next page.
In truth the body produces the soul, not the soul the body.
No man can live the moral part of his psychical (soul) life on the truth of another any more than he can live his physical (body) life on the meals of another.
According to the traditional superstitious conception, a truth is the revelation of the will of a god, involving a service to be rendered directly or indirectly to him, and morality consists in a fulfillment of it.
According to the modern scientific conception, a truth is the interpretation of a fact involving a service to be rendered to men.
This truth constitutes the most ennobling and inspiring part of man's knowledge, and it was naturally discovered by him, not supernaturally revealed to him.
Do you not see that these useless structures, all of which are inherited from the lower animals, are so many evidences of the truth of Darwinism and the untruthfulness of Mosaism?
The commentator acknowledges that they do not read so now, but contends for good and sufficient reasons, that, if there ever was any truth in them, something to this effect must have been their original reading.
The plain truth is, of course, that the sentiment which used to be absorbed in religion is now embodied in humanitarianism.
Assuming the truth of the Christian interpretation of religion this conclusion is correct.
Even if you dared to tell her thetruth she would go right off and tell that Townsend fellow.
The truth was, they wanted to talk things over, and there were no connecting doors between the three rooms.
This truth begins to reveal itself when the man begins to feel that he cannot cast out the thing he hates, cannot be the thing he loves.
Thou mayest wound the heart of God, but thou canst not rend it asunder to find the Truth that sits there enthroned.
This truth is at the heart of everything, means all kinds of completions, may be uttered in many ways; but language will never compass it, for form will never contain it.
But if the questioner be such that the dispersion of his doubt would but leave him in disobedience, the Power of truth has no care to effect his conviction.
The outshining of any human light must be obedience to truth recognized as such; our first show of light as the Lord's disciples must be in doing the things he tells us.
They call their philosophy the truth of God, and say men must hold it, or stand outside.
Thank you, I am wonderfully restored--have entered in truth upon a fresh lease of life.
He not only shows them the fair countries to which they are bound; he tells them the truth of the rough weather and the hardships of the way.
When a man says, I am low and worthless, then the gate of the kingdom begins to open to him, for there enter the true, and this man has begun to know the truth concerning himself.
But the moment they exist, truth becomes the first thing, not happiness; and he must make them true.
The thing is true of the spiritual as of the physical light--of the truth as of its type.
Must not the light of truth in his face, beheld of such even as knew not the truth, have lifted their souls up truthward?
Indeed, he makes this explanation with immense unwillingness, as he feels that he should not be required to defend a truthso evident.
There can be no question as to the probable truth of these legal conclusions.
From her sweet Cot upon the Moor Our plighted vows to Heaven are flown; Truth made me welcome at her door, And rosy Hannah is my own.
The reader will be able to judge of the truth of this from the subsequent parts this work.
The truth is that, in this constant holiday which this brilliant society gives itself philosophy is the principal amusement.
Footnote 3238: "To attain to the truth we have only to fix our attention on the ideas which each one finds within his own mind.
Casting Out The Residue Of Truth And Justice.
An end is proposed; some truth is to be demonstrated, some definition to be ascertained, some conviction to be brought about; to do this we must march, and ever directly onward.
The States-General are fallen into desuetude, and the king may with truth declare himself the sole representative of the country.
From this single truth the publicists have been able to derive the rights of man.
I My hope is firmly set On Him Whose truth abides; The lights of earth may fade and die, The hopes of earth despairing fly,-- No fear my heart betides.
To convince people of the truth of my assertion, I need only refer them to the superb official organs of these Academies .
Even to-day the full truth of the matter has not yet come to light.
On the other hand there is no truth in the statement that this loan in some way cleared the way for further Allied loans.
There is, therefore, a certain modicum of truth in the view frequently expressed in Germany that the United States would in any case finally have entered the war to prevent the so-called "German Peace.
The state department was continually besieged by journalists, who reported in their papers a medley of truth and fiction about each of my visits.
On the other hand they put themselves to the greatest possible trouble to lay "The Truth About the War" before American public opinion.
It was said later and probably with truth, that there was a mutual misunderstanding on this subject; but whatever be the truth of that, Dr.
And yet the historical truth is already pretty clear to all who look for it honestly and without prejudice.
Truth to tell, he actually went to Washington in order to take part in the deliberations which were to decide the attitude which America was henceforth to adopt towards us.
We can either of us tell the whole truth if it should seem necessary.
You better go home an' tell thetruth about it," he said, as he hurried the horses.
The hand-made gentleman saw the truth clearly, and flashed the torch of his enthusiasm on all sides of it.
If you're going to tell the truth you've got to make it worth telling, or, at least, good enough so that you will not be ashamed of it.
I remembered the bull at Baker's, and felt the truth of his remark.
Our eyes filled as we greeted each other, and, somehow, I felt thetruth in her little right hand--that she loved me.
If I had told the truth to Mr. Weatherby I would never have gone away," was my remark.
There have been years when I wa'n't as good as the medals--there's the truth of it.
I grappled with their leader, for the truthhad flashed upon me--they were after Pearl, "the machine man.
Whether this is a truth or not, is not my purpose to dispute: but 'tis certain, all that write of the Umber declare him to be very medicinable.
It is a polished round of steel or some other white metal, said the wood-maiden, which giveth back in all truth the image of whatso cometh before it.
Let that pass, she said, and blushed not; but now tell me thetruth as I have told thee, why thou art so instant with me to wake the Greywethers to-night?
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