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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about virtue, beauty, light, truth

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Quote by Claude Adrien Helvetius about truth

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

Quote by James Cash Penney about recollection, rules, time

Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about homeland, name