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In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

— Jeremy Taylor

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Charity is the great channel through which God passes all his mercy upon mankind.

Holy Dying (1651)

Whoever persecutes a disagreeing person, arms all the world against himself, and all pious people of his own persuasion.

Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)

Faith, hope, and charity are the best weapons in the world to fight against intemperance.

Holy Living (1650)

No man speaks more unreasonably, then he that denies to men the use of their Reason in choice of their Religion.

Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)

Nothing is to be esteemed evil which God and nature have fixed with eternal sanction.

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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