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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Men, Light
'The Present Crisis' (1845)

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Forever, Shadow
'The Present Crisis' (1845)

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

James Russell Lowell
Funny, Truth, Agreement
James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Honesty, Heart
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.116

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Lying, Different Faces
James Russell Lowell (1886). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Honesty, Integrity

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Forever, Thrones
"The Present Crisis" st. 8 (1845)

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Men, Naked
James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.117

Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

James Russell Lowell
Stars, Truth, Earth
James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.175

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Memories, Men
James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind The Curtain”

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Taste, Tongue
James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.107

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

James Russell Lowell
Life, Truth, War
James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

James Russell Lowell
Truth, Men, Bravery
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Truth, Men

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