Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.
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Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851); published in Memories of Hawthorne (1897) by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, p. 158Herman Melville
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When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
Lucian Freud
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
Helen Keller
Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute,
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute.John Marston
Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own hearts.Ryokan
Strike! Thou the Master, we Thy keys,
The anthem of the destinies!
The minor of Thy loftier strain,
Our hearts shall breathe the old refrain —
"Thy will be done!"John Greenleaf Whittier
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