“The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.”
Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch
Book One, Part IV “The Cloud”, Chapter 5 (p. 208)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
“Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavour and dispute;
Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.”
The Rubaiyat (1120)
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Context: THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious.
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