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1 1| OF TRUTH~What is truth? said jesting 2 1| OF TRUTH~What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and 3 1| men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that when it 4 1| I cannot tell; this same truth, is a naked, and open day– 5 1| daintily as candle–lights. Truth may perhaps come to the 6 1| judgments, and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, 7 1| teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love–making, 8 1| of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of 9 1| of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of 10 1| upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, 11 1| and turn upon the poles of truth.~To pass from theological, 12 1| theological, and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business; 13 1| philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business; it will 14 3| fundamental points. For truth and falsehood, in such things, 15 6| heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore 16 6| secrecy. Besides (to say truth) nakedness is uncomely, 17 7| their own body. And, to say truth, in nature it is much a 18 21| said it to him. And to say truth, it is not easy, when such 19 26| spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in 20 26| the less. So that it is in truth, of operation upon a man’ 21 30| sure to know more of the truth of them, than he did before; 22 47| able. And besides, to speak truth, in base times, active men