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

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

William Penn
Suffering, Inquiry, Blind
William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.828

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

William Penn
Truth, Freedom, Suffering
William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.135

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

William Penn
Death, Dark, Suffering
William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.81

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

William Penn
Men, Suffering, Doing Good
Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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