It needs the overflow of heart
To give the lips full speech.
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed; [ Horatius Bonar ]
Until I truly loved, I was alone. [ Mrs. Norton ]
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed. [ Horatius Bonar ]
He liveth long who liveth well.
All else is life but flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day. [ Horatius Bonar ]
Follow a shadow, it still flies you.
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly then,
Styled but the shadows of us men? [ Ben Jonson ]
A woman whom we truly love is a religion. [ Mme. de Girardin ]
They love us truly who correct us freely. [ Proverb ]
No man flatters the woman he truly loves. [ Tuckermann ]
Truly great men are always simple-hearted. [ Klinger ]
Nothing so endures as a truly spoken word. [ Carlyle ]
He is truly great who is great in charity. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
The truly generous is the truly wise;
And he who loves not others, lives unblest. [ Horace ]
He is truly great who hath a great charity. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. [ William Shakespeare ]
To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize. [ Pascal ]
Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Sc. 3 ]
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. [ Proverb ]
They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. [ Baron ]
Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds. [ Confucius ]
The wisest truly is, in these times, the greatest. [ Carlyle ]
How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! [ Washington Irving ]
The truly great man
Is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural. [ Burke ]
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style. [ Disraeli ]
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. [ John Ruskin ]
The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
Those who feign love succeed better than those who truly love.
To jest at the expense of philosophy is truly to philosophise. [ Pascal ]
There are none who are truly virtuous, but those who have combated.
The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secrets but himself. [ Guizot ]
The virtuous action, done for virtue's sake alone, is truly laudable. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves. [ Mirabeau ]
When you have made me shuffle the cards then truly you will not play. [ Proverb ]
Truly great men are ever most heroic to those most intimate with them. [ John Ruskin ]
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. [ Mme. Necker ]
It has been very truly said that the mob has many beads, but no brains. [ Rivarol ]
She has less beauty than her picture hath, and truly not much more wit. [ Proverb ]
He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe. [ William Shakespeare ]
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart. [ Fielding ]
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. [ J. C. Ryle ]
He is a truly good man who desires always to bear the inspection of good men. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is. [ Plutarch ]
How wisely fate ordained for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass.
Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. [ Davenant ]
Only in the loves we have for others than ourselves, can we truly live or die. [ Phillips Brooks ]
All merit ceases the moment we perform an act for the sake of its consequences.
Truly, in this respect we have our reward. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]
To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions. [ Porter ]
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. [ H. W. Shaw ]
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. [ Schiller ]
A truly great genius will be the first to prescribe limits for its own exertions. [ Brougham ]
Sleep, riches, and health are only truly enjoyed after they have been interrupted. [ Richter ]
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. [ Lavater ]
There was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. [ Ecclesiates xi:7 ]
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. [ Milton ]
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! [ Hosea Ballou ]
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. [ John Ruskin ]
The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do. [ Byron ]
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking of God's holiness. [ Matthew Henry ]
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who, can endure a wretched life. [ Martial ]
There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate. [ South ]
We first truly praise an artist when the merit of his work is such as to make us forget himself. [ Lessing ]
Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. [ George Dawson ]
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
That a country may be truly free, the people should be all philosophers, and the rulers all gods. [ Napoleon I ]
By their patience and perseverance God's children are truly known from hypocrites and dissemblers. [ Augustine ]
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world. [ Alexander Smith ]
Taste can only be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good, but of the truly excellent. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself. [ Sir T. Browne ]
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, no life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death. [ Tennyson ]
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting for ever in one direction. [ Lowell ]
The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside ... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it. [ Lewis Morris ]
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. [ Landor ]
He is incapable of a truly good action who knows not the pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. [ Lavater ]
Such a man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. [ Swift ]
He is just as truly running counter to God's will by being intentionally wretched as by intentionally doing wrong. [ W. R. Greg ]
If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; I do as truly suffer, as ever I did commit. [ William Shakespeare ]
That which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy in its own nature, even though it should be praised by no one. [ Cicero ]
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
The greatest of all human benefits, that at least without which no other benefit can be truly enjoyed, is independence. [ Parke Godwin ]
That a liaison between a man and a woman may be truly interesting, there must be between them enjoyment, remembrance, or desire. [ Chamfort ]
Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. [ Carlyle ]
When we imagine that we love, it is the presence of the loved one that deceives us: when we truly love, it is absence that proves it. [ Lingrie ]
The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about. [ Hazlitt ]
A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun. and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure. [ Addison ]
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life, [ Marcus Aurelius ]
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. [ Lord Kames ]
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. [ Plutarch ]
No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. [ Fisher Ames ]
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. [ Johnson ]
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]
The truly great are to be found everywhere; nor is it easy to say in what condition they spring up most plentifully. Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. [ William Ellery Channing ]
If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable, it is to see God's wisdom blessing an inferiority of natural powers, where they have been honestly, truly, and zealously cultivated. [ Dr. Arnold ]
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The truly great and good in affliction bear a countenance more princely than they are wont, for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. [ S. P. Sidney ]
To know by rote is no knowledge: it is only a retention of what is intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it. [ Montaigne ]
Love and the Soul, working together, might go on producing Venuses without end, each different, and all beautiful; but divorced and separated, they may continue producing indeed, yet no longer any being, or even thing, truly godlike. [ Ed ]
Who can describe the transports of a heart truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration? [ Fordyce ]
To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes. [ Hazlitt ]
A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. [ Ruskin ]
Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. [ Alcott ]
The friendship of the world is like the leaves falling from their trees in autumn; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of a friend. [ Arthur Warwick ]
It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. [ Adam Clarke ]
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them, - for every one sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, and may live or dress as they please. [ Colton ]
Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace. [ Tuckerman ]
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]