#truer

Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss. ↗

— Dennis Sharpe

#deep-thoughts #end-of-the-world #hauntingly-beautiful #truer-words-were-never-spoken #beauty

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ↗

— Ovid

#acquainted #affliction #am #better #does

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#imaginations #men #often #ruled #said

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#any #day #fish #give #had

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one? ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#always #experience #harsh #interpretations #kind

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. ↗

— Richard Owen

#appreciation #being #dependence #estimate #experience

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#bravery #courage #higher #instinct #moral

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#benevolence #cause #charity #expecting #harm

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell. ↗

— Laura Riding

#know #little #make #more #something

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#common #good #had #happened #one thing