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Letter "V" » veracity
«There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
alleviation, facing, features, pious, uglier, veracity
«War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
generated, preliminary, valor, veracity
«The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
nutritious, upheld, veracity, wholesome
«Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
The Letter, to the letter, veracity
«I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Hope,
Reputation
| Keywords:
liar, truthfully, veracity
«Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
communicating, consist, intention, veracity
«Veracity is the heart of morality.»
«For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun; he has exteriorized his rottenness. If he has not actually got rid of it, he at least no longer smears it over with a hypocritical show of virtue -- he lives at least upon a basis of veracity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
confesses, hypocritical, realities, rottenness, shams, smear, smeared, smearing, smears, veracity
«If I have not fretted myself till I am pale again, there's no veracity in me.»
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