True Life Quotes - Page 7

• Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, Biographies, Events

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.243

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• A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Example, Life Is, Proof

  John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.44, Boston : J.R. Osgood

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• No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Men, Solitude, Doubt

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.89

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