When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as it usually does, on the intuitions of its great and warm heart, the conclusions thus attained are often so profound and...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
"They say so" is half a lie.
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Thomas Fuller
I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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Walter Scott
What some invent the rest enlarge.
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Jonathan Swift
More Quotes By Walter Scott
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.
My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
