William Penn - Truth Quotes

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Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm ; but it is their weak side in argument ; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opponents.

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Nothing does Reason more Right, then the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.

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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

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The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

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