Quote #12

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

More from William Penn

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  2. They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one anothe…
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  4. Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
  5. True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
  6. It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
  7. No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
  8. Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

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