TRIFLE.

A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.

King Henry VI., Pt. III. Act iv. Sc. 8.

SHAKESPEARE.

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
Of hair, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
But wonder how the devil they got there!

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot: Prologue to Satires. A. POPE.

At every trifle scorn to take offence;
That always shows great pride or little sense.
Essay on Criticism.

A. POPE.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear ;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,

And trifles life.

Love of Fame, Satire VI.

TRUTH.

DR. E. YOUNG.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

The Frankeleines Tale.

CHAUCER.

But truths on which depends our main concern,
That 't is our shame and misery not to learn,
Shine by the side of every path we tread
With such a lustre he that runs may read.

Tirocinium.

W. COWPER.

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For truth has such a face and such a mien,
As to be loved needs only to be seen.

The Hind and Panther.

J. DRYDEN.

And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill.

Sonnet LXVI.

SHAKESPEARE.

The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere,
Is to restreine, and kepen wel thy tonge.

The Manciples Tale.

CHAUCER.

'T is strange-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.

Don Juan, Canto XIV.

LORD BYRON.

But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put
To Truth itself, that deigned him no reply.

The Task, Bk. III.

W. COWPER.