Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that … - William Chillingworth

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To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

William Chillingworth

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

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I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.

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If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.

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