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Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it,

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Children, Truth, Inquiry
John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.272

This is truth the poet sings . . .

John Greenleaf Whittier
Truth, Poet

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Truth, Eye, Land
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.342

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Truth, Creeds
John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1863). “Home Ballads and Poems”, p.165

God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!

John Greenleaf Whittier
Truth, Dark, Evil
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.201

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