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"Bring forth the horse!" — the horse was brought;
In truth, he was a noble steed,
A Tartar of the Ukraine breed,
Who look'd as though the speed of thought
Were in his limbs.
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And, after all, what is a Lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade. And I defy
Historian — heroes — lawyers — priests, to put
A fact without some leaven of a lie.
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The antique Persians taught three useful things — To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.
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No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
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Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow
Leaf,' and imagination droops her pinion,
And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk
Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.
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What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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Opinions are made to be changed—or how is truth to be got at?
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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,
And decorate the verse herself inspires:
This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,—
Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
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Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
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Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
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'Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
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Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!
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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
January 22, 1788
Died:
April 19, 1824
(aged 36)
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