"Truth never hurts the teller" — Robert Browning

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

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