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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.


Jeremy Taylor
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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.


Johannes Kepler
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.


Ambrose Bierce
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The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.
Laurie Graham
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.
Sue Grafton
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Only by keeping oneself in constant process of growth, under the constant influence of the best things in one's own age, does one become a companion halfway good enough for one's children.
Ellen Key
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.


Elvis Presley
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That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
Minna Antrim
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.


Frank Norris
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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone Weil
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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
Isaac Barrow
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If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.


John Ensign
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.


Thomas Fuller
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The truth is lived, not taught.


Hermann Hesse
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The color of truth is gray.


Andre Gide
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Expressing truth is hard work.


Timothy Noah
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But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.


Herbie Hancock