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Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.

— Henry Alford

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My bark is wafted to the strand
By breath Divine;
And on the helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.

The Holy Spirit of God dwelling in us, knowing our wants better than we, Himself pleads in our prayers, raising us to higher and holier desires than we can express in words, which can only find utterance in sighings and aspirations.

The New Testament for English Readers (1865)

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

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