As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
John Lancaster Spalding
True readers.. Are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.
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Believe in no triumph which is won by the deadening of human faculty or the dwarfing of human life. Strive for truth and love, not for victory.
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The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.
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When with all thy heart thou strivest to live with truth and love, couldst thou do anything better?.. If this be thy life, thou shalt not deem it a misfortune to lack the things men most crave and toil for.
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However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.
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To clothe truth in fitting words is to feel a satisfaction like that which comes of doing good deeds.
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When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.
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The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?
The seeking for truth is better than its loveless possession.
The disinterested love of truth which culture fosters is akin to the unselfishness which is a characteristic of the good.
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To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.
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The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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