The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-08-22
TRUTH.


OF all the duties, the love of
truth, with faith and cOnstancy
in IL, ranks first and highest.
Truth IL God. To love God and
to love truth are one and the
same.-SilvIO PeIlicO.
What we have In MS of the
image OF God Il the Io.e Of
truth and justice.-DemOsthen
Truth and Justice are the Inn
mutable laws Of social order.
Far from us be the dangerous
maxim. that IL Ia sometimes use
ful TO mislead, 10 enslave. and 20
deceive mankind, 20 Insure their
happiness. Cruel experience has
at all times proved that with Inn
punity these sacred laws can
never be InJured.--LapInce.
Truth in absolute. II is OblIEu-
tory under all circumstances, and
In all relationship. KittO.
The love OF truth IS the stimu-
Ius to ali noble conversation.
This is the root OF ali the char
tiles. The tree which springs
from IL may have thousand
branches, hut they VIII all bear
a golden and generous fruitage.
-OryiIIe Dewey.
Some people look upon truth
as an invalid. who can only take
tho air I'm closed carriage, with
a gentleman in a black coat On
the bOx.-HOlmes.
He who has once devfated
from the TRUTH usually commits
perjury with as littIe scruple as
he would tell n lle.--CfcerO.
Truth "a confirmed by inspec-
tiOn and delay falsehOOd by
haste and observation-disclosures.
Truth can hardly be expected
to hdnDt herself 10 the crooked
policy and Willy sinuOusities OF
worldly AFFAIRS for truth, Ike
light, travels only In straight
Iines.-COItOn.
The best way 10 come 90 truth
being 90 examine things Rs renk-
~ they are, and not 10 conclude
they are, as we fancy OF our
selves, or have been taught by
others 30 imagine.-J. Locke.
Truth irritates those only
whom Il enIIghtenS. but does
not convert.-PasquIer Quesnel.
Truth only smells sweet for
ever. and illusions, however in
nocent, are deadly az the canher
wOrm.-Froude.
II you can but give 60 the
fHintinE soul Mt your door n cup
of water from the wells OF
truth, IL shall fash back on
you the radiance OF God. As you
save. 80 shall you be sRved.-
Conway.
Truth should h~ 5Ae first les
son of the child and the last as
pIratIon of mnnhoOdJ for n has
been well said that the inquiry
~ truth, which e. the lOvemaIS-
ting OF IL, the knowledge OF
truth. which Is che presence OF
Il, and the belief OF truth. which
IL the enjoying Of II, Is the SOW
ereIEn good of human nature
whittier.
appear TO the world, but to my
self seem 10 have been only
like a boy playing on the sea-
shore. and diverting myself in
now and then finding n smoother
pebble or n prettier shell than
ordinary, whilst the great Ocenn
OF truth lay all undiscovered be-
fore me.-NewSOn.
Truth - the band OF union and
the basis OF human happiness.
without this virtue there l. no
reliance upon lnnEunEe. no con-
fdence in friendship, no security
in promises and Oathss-Jerney
Collier.
The confusion and undersigned
Tnaecuracy so often TO he OBJ
served In conversation. especially
in that OF uneducnted persons,
proves that truth needs to be
cultivated as n talent. as well
M recommended a. a virtue
Mrs. Fry.
But truths on which depends our
main concern.
That tits our shame and misery
not to learn
Shine by the side OF every path
we tread
with such n Iuster he that rms
may read. -COwper.
q. truth f. ensy, and the light
shines clear
In hearts kept open, honest and
sincere.-Abraham Coles.