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Quote by John Dryden
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs on

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen. – John Dryden

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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. – John Dryden

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – John Dryden

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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume

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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. – Peter Abelard

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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

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