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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,


Robert Louis Stevenson

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"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
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JANE BIRKIN Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.
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(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
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CLIFFORD COHEN That is what is meant by the proposition omne ens est verum (everything that is, is true)—though w...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN They that love God live their daily lives to show their true love for God; in truth and in spirit!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
UNKNOWN To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
BAYARD RUSTIN God is not only true, but Truth itself
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IRA LEVIN Jealousy Is a strange but dark emotion eating at your very inner self if we let it, it will eventual...
GARY F EVANS... To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it,...
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The truth today isn't the truth it used to be. Today's truth is the tainted truth, not the pure trut...
DRAYKE POWELL Speak well to people; tell them the truth today! If you meet them another day, tell them the same tr...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The truth is in the heart;
out there is true darkness.
TOBA BETA Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEY Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human ...
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AVA DELLAIRA Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
RICHARD BACH Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
FRANCIS H. BRADLEY Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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DENISE SMITH The well of true wit is truth itself.
GEORGE MEREDITH The well of true wit is truth itself
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LILY TOMLIN The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY The only true testimony is the Truth of God.
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MELODY BEATTIE A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
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BILL HICKS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Knowledge isn't the issue, it's what you think you know that's not the truth.
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AMBER SMITH The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society.
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DIANA ROSE MORCILLA Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of...
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UNKNOWN A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.
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...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
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I love with all my heart:
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The obscurest epoch is today.
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(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories they were--about hanging, and...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and bo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we...
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