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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. – Thomas Carlyle

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Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle

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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. – Molly Ivins

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Facts are many, but the truth is one. – Rabindranath Tagore

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The essence of humanitys spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? – E. O. Wilson

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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldnt swallow the hypocrisy. – Barry White

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