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Truth Quotes by William Penn
- 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.
- Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
- Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
- In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
- Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than…
- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers
- 1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn To be like…
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