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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

William Penn

William Penn
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Born: October 14, 1644
Died: July 30, 1718 (aged 73)
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