Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 70)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
“To be a Prodigal's favourite,—then, worse truth,
A Miser's pensioner,—behold our lot!”
The Small Celandine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.”
John Milton
(1608–1674) English epic poet
The Reason of Church Government, Introduction, Book ii
“The truth will set you free — but first it will make you miserable.”
James A. Garfield
(1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Attributed without citation to Mark Twain as well as Garfield in recent years, this may have arisen sometime in the 1970s. The earliest discovered citation is a poster in a residential treatment program for alcoholics in Syracuse, New York, [ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/04/truth-free/ described in a 1978 newspaper article]. Another early publication is is found in Pinochet's Chile : An Eyewitness Report, 1980/81 (1981) by Morna Macleod, p. 5
Misattributed
“He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.”
Julius Streicher
(1885–1946) German politician
Alternate version: He who knows the truth and does not speak it truly is a miserable creature.
Quoted in "Julius Streicher" - Page 211 - By Randall L. Bytwerk