"Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

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Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
More Henry David Thoreau quotes
"Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
"As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes...
"Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.