James Beattie: How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!

How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love! — James Beattie

How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love!

James Beattie

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All truths are not to be told. — George Herbert
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this — John Locke
And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill. — William Shakespeare
It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as — Marcus Aurelius
To love God is to have good health, good looks, good sense, experience, a kindly — Samuel Butler
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Qui grate beneficium accipit, primam eius pensionem solvit. — Seneca
Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said: "To know one's self." — Diogenes Laertius
I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over! — George Bernard Shaw
That's love too. It ain't sex, and maybe that's too bad, but you know, Cindy, wh — Orson Scott Card in Homebody
That life is long, which answers life's great end. — Edward Young