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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

John Dryden
Truth, Lying, Evil
John Dryden (1750). “Select Essays on the Belles Lettres”, p.314

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

John Dryden
Truth, Understanding, Enthusiasm
John Dryden, Edmond Malone (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...”, p.349

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

John Dryden
Truth, Needs, Literature
'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 1, l. 33

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

John Dryden
Truth, Saws, Telling The Truth
William Shakespeare, Mr. John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays”

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

John Dryden
Truth, Mean, Helping
John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.37

The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.

John Dryden
Truth, Light, Torches
John Dryden, John Sargeaunt (1929). “The Poems of John Dryden, Ed., with an Introduction and Textual Notes”

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