 Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body.  The North Carolina Historical Review - Page 1721926Full view - About this book
 | American Society for the Extension of University Teaching - 1896 - 430 pages
...under the everlasting seal of right reason, raay be stamped by opinion." — SIR THOMAS BROWNE. II. " To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part...perfection in this world, and the seed plot of all other virtues." — JOHN LOCKE. III. ' ' We see how good and evil mingle in the best of men and in the best... | |
 | Christian Science - 1914 - 812 pages
...beside my mother's knee; All is of God that is or is to be. And God is Good. — John G. Whittier. To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. — John Locke. , Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1854 - 660 pages
...undisguised ; and to whom I might communicate what I thought true freely. Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake, is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, yon have as much of it as ever I met with in... | |
 | Christian Science - 1892 - 628 pages
...manhood and womanhood revealed through Science the more we see the truth of this. John Locke well said, " To love Truth for Truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection and the seed plot of all other virtues." Thus does it not behoove us as followers of Christ to see... | |
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