Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“struggled scarce—
Consented, and was dead—

And We—We placed the Hair—
And drew the Head erect—
And then an awful leisure was
Belief to regulate—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, and to need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)