Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

True knowledge of any thing or any creature 15 is only of the good of it. Ruskin.

True liberty is a positive force, regulated by law; false liberty is a negative force, a release from restraint. Philip Schaff.

True love is still the same; the torrid zones, / And those more rigid ones, / It must not know; / For love grown cold or hot / Is lust or friendship, not / The thing we show. Suckling.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. Amiel.

True love is the parent of a noble humility. Channing.

True love will creep, not having strength to 20 go. Quarles.

True love works never for the loved one so, / Nor spares skin-surface, smoothing truth away. Browning.

True love's the gift which God has given / To man alone beneath the heaven. Scott.

True mercy is ashamed of itself; hides itself, and does not complain. You may know it by that. Varnhagen von Ense.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. Addison.