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Truth

by Lizette Woodworth Reese

The old faiths light their candles all about,
But burly Truth comes by and blows them out.




Quotes of the Day

When you're going through hell, keep going.
• Winston Churchill


Poems of the Day
  • Dorothy Parker
    Incurable
    by Dorothy Parker
    And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed