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It Was A Saying Of The Ancients, "Truth Lies In A Well
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It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry
on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with
steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.
-- Dr. I. Watts
Related:
We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap.
v...
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale.
The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it....
Saying this, we say what's been handed down.
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
-- Dr. I. Wa...
The Well. The town may be changed, But the well cannot be changed.
It neither decreases nor increases. They come and go and draw from the well....
Well, we're big rock singers, we've got golden fingers, And we're loved everywhere we go.
We sing about beauty, and we sing about truth, At ten thousand dollars a show....
Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.
-- Anon....
MacDuff: "We may soon face a critical moment. The success of our mission may hang on a split-second decision.
Hesitation would kill us all. I know that they're counting on us would surely die as well....
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.
-- Dr. I. Wa...